AWR Spotlight: Ten Years of AWR

Bioregion Spotlight: Ten Years of AWR

A Summary of AWR's Major Accomplishments:

Our proposal for public lands management has been introduced in Congress as The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act. NREPA is the first-ever bioregional-scale ecosystem protection bill. We secured historic hearings on this bill, which has changed the public lands debate.
Our campaign for bull trout protection resulted in listing as a threatened species from the Pacific Ocean to the Continental Divide, covering five states, 32 national forests, and a host of other jurisdictions, making it the largest listing of its kind. This listing will have great impact on the future course of land management in our region.
Our proposal for grizzly bear restoration in the greater Salmon-Selway-Bitterroot ecosystem, the Conservation Biology Alternative (CBA) becomes the first-ever bioregional-scale alternative to be included in a federal Environmental Impact Statement.
Since our formation, we have played a key role in the tripling of public support for total wilderness protection in our region.
Since our formation, the allowable sale level on the national forests in the Wild Rockies has declined by more than 2/3.
We expanded the grassroots network in support of the ecosystem approach from 10 to more than 1,000 groups and businesses.
Our national public outreach work has reached millions of citizens, with major media coverage on CNN and other TV networks, most major newspapers including the Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal, national radio, and in numerous major magazines.

Alliance for the Wild Rockies
PO Box 8731 • Missoula, Montana • 59807
Phone: 406-721-5420 • Fax: 406-721-9917
E-mail: awr@wildrockies.org

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