Wild Lands

Earthjustice fought for years to protect special places in the northwestern corner of Alaska, and in 2013, the Obama administration set aside five of the most important “special places.”

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.