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Update on CalWild’s border wall case
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There has been a lot happening related to the border wall and CalWild’s litigation to stop it. There are numerous cases against President Trump’s emergency declaration and the misallocation of…

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“Renewable” Hydro Boom Threatens California’s Wild Places
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By Steve Evans UPDATE 5/29/19: Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected Premium Energy’s preliminary study permit application for the Owens Valley Pumped Storage project because it was “patently…

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Land and Water Conservation Fund Re-Authorized Permanently
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For years conservation groups have pushed pieces of legislation to protect places all over the country.  And for years the vast majority of those bills have languished in Congress. This…

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A Surprisingly Good Time in DC
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by Ryan Henson, Senior Policy Director This month marked my first trip to DC to meet with the members of the 116th Congress (2019-2020). November’s election brought about a lot…

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The Faces of Southern Sierra Activism
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by Joel Caldwell In late September 2018 I traveled the length of California’s southern Sierra Nevada mountains photographing and interviewing environmental justice activists for California Wilderness Coalition (CalWild), in partnership…

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Kyle Sullivan, BLM
A Community Proposal For A Management Plan: Mojave Trails National Monument
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Photo above by Kyle Sullivan, BLM Our Assistant Policy Director Linda Castro recently wrote about the desert community’s proposal for managing Mojave Trails National Monument. You can read it below…

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Photo by Denise Cross via Flickr-Creative Commons
Election 2018 Wrap-Up
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The votes are still being counted in a number of races in California, but it’s not too early to have some takeaways from this year’s midterm election results and what…

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CalWild launches CROP to tackle issue of trespass marijuana cultivation on public lands
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by Senior Policy Director Ryan Henson (with help from intern Rick Holder) Regardless of one’s personal beliefs about marijuana, almost everyone agrees that it should not be grown in our…

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A state safety net for federal wild and scenic rivers
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by Steve Evans, Wild Rivers Director AB 2975, the bill proposing a state safety net for federal wild and scenic rivers in California, passed the California Senate on August 9,…

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OP-ED: What’s needed to prevent megafires
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Read the original posting on CalMatters by John Amodio, CalWild Board Member In his State of the State address in January, Gov. Jerry Brown declared that we must act boldly…

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