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Arctic Refuge
Farmlands and Forests
Public Lands
Tribal Lands

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Arctic Refuge

Gwich'in (1.5 Mb)
For the Gwich'in people preserving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a matter of survival.

Wildlife of the Arctic Refuge (1.5 Mb)
Meet the amazing wildlife of the Arctic Refuge, and learn how oil exploration and development will seriously damage their ecosystem and chance for survival.

Updated Economic Estimates of Effects of Leasing on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain (339 Kb)
Report scrutinizing the revenues expected from oil lease sales on the Arctic Refuge according to President Bush's FY2007 Budget Proposal

Farmlands and Forests

The Possibility of Plantations (2 Mb)
Integrating Ecological Forestry into Plantation Systems

North Carolina Farm Bill Fact Sheet (3.4 Mb)
A detailed explanation of how the conservation programs in the farm bill are benefitting wildlife, farmers and the environment in North Carolina.

National Farm Bill Conservation Program (444 Kb)
A fact sheet that summarizes the importance of various conservation programs in the farm bill.

Public Lands

The Special Values of the Great Divide (4.7 Mb)
This March 2005 report, prepared by the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance for NWF, explores the values of Wyoming's Great Divide for wildlife and recreation. The 3.5 million acre area is managed by the BLM, and is threatened by industrial development for natural gas, coalbed methane, oil and coal.

New BLM grazing rules threaten wildlife and habitat on America's public lands (72 Kb)
Proposed rule changes would sweep aside past efforts to improve rangeland conditions and reduce the impacts of abusive livestock grazing on the 160 million acres of BLM public lands, disenfranchising the public and further entrenching destructive practices.

Coal Bed Methane (16 Kb)
Issue Introduction: Coal Bed Methane: Short-term Boom, Long-term Bust [Copyright: Montana Wildlife Federation - 2002]

GAO Report Finds Bureau of Land Management Rushed to Permit Energy Development (1.5 Mb)
The Bureau of Land Management sacrifices environmental protection and wildlife values in a rush to permit oil and gas development.

The Pocosin Lakes Wildlife Refuge: Wildlife Sanctuary - Not Military Landing Field (246 Kb)
The Navy has proposed the construction of a new landing field in eastern North Carolina only 3.5 miles from the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge-a haven for waterfowl and other wildlife. The proposal would have serious impacts on the Refuge's wildlife as well as on the local community.

Changing the Roadless Area Conservation Rule: Impacts to Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat (89 Kb)
Replacing the "Roadless Rule" with an onerous state petitioning process would mean that lands which currently provide habitat for a multitude of wildlife would soon be carved by roads, clearcuts, power lines, pipelines, and other incidents of human development (November 2004).

Tribal Lands

Restoring the Prairie, Mending the Sacred Hoop (1.5 Mb)
Prairie Conservation and Restoration on the Cheyenne River Reservation