WildEarth Guardians

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We protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the American West. Join us!

In 2020, Guardians' Communications Director Jon Schwedler took a bike trip to Bears Ears National Monument. The land was beautiful, and during that time of Covid, Jon was struck by the deep resilience of the ancestral Puebloan culture written in the landscape.

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For September, we're highlighting #WildPlaces that provide us solace, respite, joy, and inspiration. Last summer, before before the fires burned a bunch of the Canyon, Guardians' Development Director Kevin Gaither-Banchoff and his wife visited the epic Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park.

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Over the last month, Carlsbad had just one “good” air quality day. The city is surrounded by oil and gas wells and infrastructure. We are working ceaselessly to require much more stringent oil and gas pollution enforcement in New Mexico's Permian Basin. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/TAvwMTE

Studies Link New Mexico Drilling to Radiation, Air Pollution, Health Risks

Small towns in the Permian Basin have become a petri dish for the perils of living amid the nation's largest oil fields.

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This might be the perfect example of Trump not knowing what public lands mean to this country. To anyone but a real estate developer, it would be obvious that the true value of any part of Yosemite far exceeds whatever price some developer is willing to pay to exploit it. https://loom.ly/vB8yEWg

Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

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