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==Controversies== |
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Revision as of 16:05, 6 June 2012
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WildEarth Guardians is a non-profit environmental organization, founded in 1989, with offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Denver, Colorado, Phoenix, Arizona, and Tucson, Arizona. The organization's approach to conservation features a combination of scientific analysis, strategic litigation to enforce existing environmental laws, and efforts to reform public policies. WildEarth Guardians was founded by Sam Hitt and its current Executive Director is John Horning.
Mission statement
"WildEarth Guardians works to protect and restore wildlife, wild places and wild rivers in the American West."[1]WildEarth Guardians Homepage
Controversies
WildEarth Guardians have caused controversy for their position on wildfires and biomass, and they have been accused of making strident and personal attacks against fellow environmentalists who do not share all of their positions.[2]
Syndicated columnist, Sherry Robinson, called WildEarth Guardians "an extremist group with a disinformation campaign".[3] Another syndicated columnist, Kristen Davenport, said that the organization is "far-reaching" [4] The Rio Grande Foundation called the group "radical environmentalists." [5] And supporters of biomass energy development have accused the Forest Guardians of “bad faith,” “flip-flopping” and “radicalism.”.[6]
WildEarth Guardians’ position on wildfires drew particular criticism when they produced a report called “Born of Fire,” a “comprehensive review of the Forest Service’s fire policy and practices in the Southwest.” In the report, they “proposed an alternative vision… which calls on the government to allow fire to reassert its natural role in backcountry forests and for more use of prescribed fire closer to home.” [7] After the 2000 Los Alamos wildfire, in which a prescribed fire went horribly awry sweeping through 20,000 acres (80 km2) of northern New Mexico, some environmentalists, locals and forest service professionals have recoiled from WildEarth Guardians' call for more “prescribed fire closer to home.” [8]
Notes
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Personal Attacks a Last Resort," David Cohen, Mountain View Telegraph, 9/27/07,[2]
- ^ "Biomass Lacks Guardian Approval," Rio Grande Sun, 6/7/07
- ^ "Bio Mess," Albuquerque Tribune, 8/29/07.
- ^ "Can the Environmentalists be Satisfied?"
- ^ In a number of articles and posts at New Mexico Biomass
- ^ Forest Guardians - Southwestern Forests - Wildland Fire
- ^ For more on the Los Alamos wildfire, see the BBC article at this link
External links
- WildEarth Guardians Home Page
- Newspaper Article about a lawsuit Forest Guardians filed with Sinapu to prevent recreational trapping.[dead link]
- PDF of the filed complaint in the lawsuit with Sinapu against recreational trapping.
- Newspaper Article about a lawsuit Forest Guardians was involved with fighting for the protection of the Gunnison's Prairie Dog
- Newspaper Article about a lawsuit that Forest Guardians filed against the US Forest Service for jeopardizing the endangered Mexican spotted owl through poor grazing management.
- www.fguardians.org about a petition that Nicole issued to get 475 threatened south west species onto the Endangered Species Act
- New Mexico Biomass for a critical perspective on the Forest Guardians stance on alternative energy and wildfires.