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The Conservation Leaders
Network
The only organization in the country that focuses on working
with county commissioners
to protect America's natural resources.
“The Conservation Leaders
Network provided additional outreach capacity at a critical
time for the campaign to protect Idaho's Boulder-White
Clouds, the largest unprotected national forest roadless
area outside of Alaska, by engaging their network of county
leaders to bring an effective new voice to the wilderness
debate.”
Jen Schmidt, Campaign
for America’s Wilderness
The Conservation Leaders
Network at National Association of Counties' (NACo) Annual
Conference in Reno
Lane County OR Commissioner
Pete Sorenson recently wrote of that event, "I can tell you
it was a disaster for the environment. Resolutions against
reasonable climate change legislation and a platform change
in opposition to clean water were both passed. We were
really out-organized by conservative political forces who
stacked the deck at the Reno conference, both on the
traditionally extraction-oriented Public Lands Steering
Committee, but also on the more-balanced Environment, Energy
and Land Use Committee."
He also said that he
thought "[t]he high point of the conference was the public
“launch” of Local Officials for Clean Water. Commissioner
Carol Fordonski (Queen Anne’s County, Maryland),
Commissioner Chuck McGrady (Henderson County, North
Carolina), Supervisor Susan Adams (Marin County, California)
and I all presented reasons why Congress needs to restore
the clean water protections of the 1972 Clean Water Act,
following recent Supreme Court decisions undermining the
law."
For more on NACo's
anti-clean water position, click here. For more on the
launch of Local Officials for Clean Water, click here.
For photos of the Conservation Leaders Network's
"Conservation Makes $ense" booth, click here.
To view photos of the
Conservation Leaders Network's "Conservation Makes $ense"
booth, click here. To see a list of materials we
distributed, click here.
Clean
Water for All—County Leaders Speak Out for Clean Water
See this new report from
county officials across the country and you will know why
counties need clean water and the full protections of the
1972 Clean Water Act!
Click here to download your free the report:
Clean Water for
All Report
See the Conservation Leaders Network
featured on The Wilderness Society's
website!
WOPR
The Department of Interior
finally withdrew the Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR). The
Conservation Leaders Network worked with county commissioners from
O&C counties and forest advocates in opposition to the WOPR since the
Bush Administration first proposed it years ago. We are
delighted that sound management of these federal forest lands has
prevailed at last. To read the
Department's press release, click
here.
Marine reserves get
a boost from
Science
Magazine study.
For more
news, go to News & Events.
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