 Natural ResourcesProtecting Natural Resources, Wildlife and Nature
The nation’s natural resources, wildlife and nature have faced persistent challenge in recent years, as efforts to preserve and protect nature have run headlong into political pressure to defend destructive exploitation for profit. In Washington, meanwhile, the Bush Administration conducted what sometimes seemed like a marathon giveaway of natural resources to polluting industries.
Learn about CPR Member Scholars’ work to protect precious natural resources from destruction and misuse:
- Endangered Species Opinion Articles in Slate. Holly Doremus has published two articles in Slate Magazine on the Bush Administration's decision about whether to list polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Read the pre-decision January 18, 2008 article in Slate Magazine or the post-decision May 20, 2008 article.
- Water War in the Klamath Basin: The Book. Read about Member Scholars Holly Doremus and A. Dan Tarlock's 2008 book, Water War in the Klamath Basin: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics, the tale of a bitter water-management dispute pitting environmental and agricultural interests in the midst of a Southern Oregon drought.
- Public Lands Report. Read Squandering Public Resources, by Alyson Flournoy, Margaret Clune Giblin and Matt Shudtz's September 2007 report on the government's failed stewardship of public lands.
- National Forests White Paper. Read Alyson Flournoy, Robert L. Glicksman and Margaret Clune Giblin's June 2005 white paper on the Bush Administration's regulatory sell-out of the national forests. Read the news release.
- Grazing Rights Articles. Read Joseph Feller's, "In Bush Grazing Decision, Politics, Secrecy Win Again," a description of Administration suppression of a damning environmental impact statement assessing the harm from a Bureau of Land Management grazing policy, published August 18, 2004 on the websites of the Center for American Progress and AlterNet. Or Read Feller's article, "The BLM’s Proposed New Grazing Regulations: Serving the Most Special Interest," posted by permission of the Journal of Land, Resources and Environmental Law, from the Journal's Vol. 24 No. 2, 2004.
- Wetlands Op-Ed. Read Alyson Flournoy’s "Dangerous Illusions about Wetlands," as published on the Center for American Progress website on May 19, 2004.
- A CPR Perspective. CPR Member Scholars have authored articles on related topics, as part of the CPR Perspectives Series. These include Perspectives on Livestock Grazing on Public Lands, Mountaintop Mining, National Forest Management, Wetlands, and Protecting Endangered Species.
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