Our News and Views

Wildlands CPR Staff maintain a regularly updated blog ("Our News and Views"), with insightful commentary on off-road vehicle, wildland road, and restoration issues. Check out the posts below, or subscribe to our blog's RSS feed.

Big Creek removed from impaired waters list thanks to road treatments

Created by Bethanie Walder on May 16, 2012

Way back in 1996, Wildlands CPR held our first ever road reclamation workshop. We brought out two road reclamation experts from Pacific Watershed Associates (PWA) in northern California to lead the workshop. About 20 activists from around the U.S. came to learn about how roads impact water quality and how road reclamation can make those impacts go away.

Roads are hot with our partners!

Created by Marlies Wierenga on May 11, 2012

Seems like roads have been a focus area for several of our partners over the last few months.  Check these out:

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative:  Y2Y Newsletter

Conservation Minded Hunters & Anglers Should Not Support the Sportsmen’s Heritage Act

Created by Adam Rissien on May 10, 2012

In an election year attempt to convince hunters and anglers to support an anti-environmental agenda, many Congressional Representatives, (22 Republican & 5 Democrats) co-sponsored a bill called the “Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012,”  which passed the House on April 17th and awaits Senate action.  

Advocating for roads?

Created by Marlies Wierenga on May 1, 2012

 

Wallowa-Whitman Travel Plan Yanked

Created by Sarah Peters on April 20, 2012

Can Roads and (fill in the blank) Coexist?

Created by Thomas R Petersen on April 18, 2012

A "Daisy" Triggered Discussion

Created by Sarah Peters on April 11, 2012

Kipling poem inspires great road reclamation video

Created by Bethanie Walder on April 8, 2012

Check out this ultra-short video, "A Road Through the Woods." The film-maker, Jeremy Roberts, of Conservation Media, aptly refers to it as a meditation on road reclamation. It's based on the haunting Rudyard Kipling poem, "A Way Through the Woods."

Before World Water Day came...

Created by Marlies Wierenga on March 23, 2012

 

World Forestry Day!  March 21. 

In 1971, member governments of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations agreed to support the annual observance of World Forestry Day.  The day was established to celebrate the importance of forests and the benefits derived from them.

Forest Service Releases New Planning Rules

Created by Adam Rissien on March 23, 2012

Today the Forest Service issued its final rules that direct how each of the 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering 193 million acres across the country will manage our public lands. These rules guide the development and publication of Land Management Resource Plans (e.g. Forest Plans) and, as is most often the case with agency actions, contain both positive and negative aspects.

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