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Ecosytem Defense Program |
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The WildWest Institute has been a national leader in developing administrative and legal strategies that challenge the U.S. Forest Service for their pattern of failure to comply with ecological protection requirements within federal forest plans and other statutes. We are a leading public lands watchdog, working on nearly 20 National Forests in the Northern Rockies Bioregion. In fact, many of the most significant, precedent-setting legal victories that have protected old-growth forests, roadless wildlands, clean water and wildlife habitat have been due to our work. This is a crucial time for public lands. The first generation of forest plans that were developed in the late 1980s have largely expired and are awaiting revisions using the weakened National Forest Management Act regulations that were recently adopted by the Bush Administration. These new forest plans will shape how our public forests and wildlands are managed for the foreseeable future. We are currently mounting a set of region-wide legal challenges that will force the agency to include enforceable standards for protection of old-growth forests, sensitive species and soil productivity in the new forest plans. For more information, call WildWest at 406.396.0321 or info@wildwestinstitute.org.
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