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BLM Wilderness Attack

Offices

Rocky Mountain

Press Releases

Court Rules Bush Administration Is Illegally Hiding Wilderness Documents

Monday, October 11, 2004

Backroom Deal Exposed

Tuesday, April 6, 2004

Administration's Stonewalling On Secretly Negotiated Anti-Wilderness Deal Challenged

Monday, June 28, 2004

Groups Sue to Obtain Bush Administration Documents

Thursday, August 28, 2003

Files

Unsettling Development

(Reference)

Wilderness Inventory Response Brief from State of Utah

(Legal Document)

Wilderness Inventory Response Brief from BLM

(Legal Document)

Wilderness Inventory Opening Brief

(Legal Document)

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In 2003, the Bush administration agreed to stop protecting millions of acres of potential wilderness. The agreement was the result of a suit by the state of Utah and others that was settled in secret. Conservation groups intervened, and are challenging the settlement in a very convoluted and drawn-out case.

Arizona Wilderness Coalition

Biodiversity Conservation Alliance

California Wilderness Coalition

Colorado Environmental Coalition

Friends of Nevada Wilderness

Idaho Conservation League

Jim Angell

Staff:
Jim Angell

Clients:
Arizona Wilderness Coalition
Biodiversity Conservation Alliance
California Wilderness Coalition
Colorado Environmental Coalition
Friends of Nevada Wilderness
Idaho Conservation League

Last Updated: July 13, 2010
Case Number # 2550