Wild Lands

In October 2001, Earthjustice reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. Army that requires the Army to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for its proposed resumption of live-fire training at Makua Military Reservation (MMR) on Oahu, a culturally and ecologically important area, with scores of Hawaiian cultural sites and nearly fifty endangered plants and animals threatened by training.

Earthjustice represented a coalition of five environmental groups challenging the resource management plans for three national monuments that allow excessive off-road vehicle use.

Earthjustice challenged a permit to expand a phosphate mine into roadless areas in a national forest in Idaho, a challenge that was ultimately turned away in a two-to-one appeals court ruling.

Earthjustice successfully challenged a Bush-era plan that abandoned scientific protections for federal public lands in western Oregon by opening up those lands to outdated old-growth logging.