This past week more than 600 representatives from around the Great Lakes joined at the Healing Our Waters – Great Lakes Coalition Restoration Conference as part of the larger Great Lakes … Read more
Conservation
EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge
Today’s forecast: 62 degrees with an 85% chance of showers. Put on your raincoat and start singing… Rain, rain, go away. Come again another day… Look at all the puddles … Read more
Congress Fails Farmers and Wildlife (Updated)
The 2012 Farm Bill, or lack thereof, has been ubiquitous in news media over the last few months. Opinions and perspectives on the House and Senate versions of the Farm Bill … Read more
Three Reasons Congress Should Set Partisan Politics Aside for Renewables
If you’ve watched just a little television in the last couple of weeks, you’ve undoubtedly been exposed to the super partisan rhetoric of this campaign season. This fixation with making … Read more
Hot and Hazy: Central Washington Wildfires Muddle the Puget Sound Skyline
Smoke from Central Washington wildfires is dimming the horizon throughout Washington today, obscuring the crispness that is so common on a sunny summer day in Seattle. It also raises air quality … Read more
Wind River Tribes Unite to Return Yellowstone Bison to Their Native Homeland
This is a guest post by Jason Baldes, a member of NWF’s Tribal Lands Advisory Council. This week, a huge step was taken in the decades-long effort to restore Yellowstone … Read more
Northern Cheyenne Tribe at a Crossroads: To Develop Coal or Not?
On Sunday, over 100 people assembled for a Way of Life Gathering (Hestana Vestotse) in Lame Deer, Montana. Yellow Bird, a Northern Cheyenne non-profit group and Sierra Club, organized the event with … Read more
The Passing of Larry Gibson
I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Larry Gibson. Larry was a courageous leader and advocate for the stopping of mountaintop removal mining. I visited with Larry … Read more
