Outdoor Alliance December Newsletter

The Incredible Shrinking Monuments The myths, the maps, and the legal aftermath in the wake of last week's announcement that Utah's protected land will be drastically scaled back. See more ... What the National Monument Rollbacks Mean for Recreation How will your outdoor activities be affected by the recent rollbacks of protected land? Outdoor Alliance's GIS Lab crunches the data. Read more... What We've Been Reading All the answers to frequently asked questions from climbers on the lawsuit to protect Bears Ears National Monument The changing politics of woods work on National Forests Here are all the lawsuits fighting the national monument reductions How attacks on public lands got personal Advocacy 101: How to Get a Meeting With Your Lawmaker You elected them, now here's how to get into their offices to talk with them. Read more... Protect Your National Monuments Decision makers need to know their actions have consequences. If you haven't already, speak up about last week's attacks on public lands. Take action now...

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Outdoor Alliance -- August Newsletter

What's the Latest on the Plot to Steal Your Public Lands? The threats to public lands have evolved, and they are savvier and more dangerous than before. Read more ... Reading the Tea Leaves For The Future of Our National Monuments Will Secretary Zinke eliminate vast swaths of public land? His recommendation to the President is due next week and our policy staff takes a guess about what's ahead. Read more...   What We've Been Reading A bipartisan bill will improve recreation on public lands (and we are stoked about it!) In Utah, 3000 outdoor enthusiasts march to stand up for public lands Test your public lands IQ Where's the Public in Public Lands? If it's public land, the public should have a say, right? A recent order on energy independence threatens to cut the public - and outdoor recreation - out of the decision making process. Read more... Protect Clean Water A proposal to repeal the Clean Water Rule puts rivers, their flows, and the recreation economies they support in danger. Take action today with our friends at American Whitewater. Take action now...

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Public Lands Deserve a Public Process

Congress is preparing to vote on a bill that would have major implications for recreation on 245 million acres of public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The vote would throw out an essential BLM planning process and prevent important modernizations in the future.   You can read more about this bill (H.J. Res. 44 in the House, and S.J. Res. 15 in the Senate) on our blog, but the short story is that over the last two years, the BLM has worked collaboratively with groups like Outdoor Alliance and local organizations to develop its Planning 2.0 initiative. Planning 2.0 better recognizes the importance of recreation on public lands and improves how the BLM handles data and public input.    Congress is planning to completely overturn this regulation, which would roll back the public process, undercut outdoor recreation, and block needed reforms into the future. These bills are very likely to pass unless there is a lot of public outcry about them. We've made it easy to reach out.   Tell Congress to protect Planning 2.0 and your outdoor experiences.      This bill sounds wonky (and it kind of is) but we can't overemphasize how important this is. If you have 2 minutes today, please send a letter. And if you have 5 minutes, send a letter and make a call to your member of Congress.   This tool makes it easy. Write your members of Congress right now.   Thanks so much for standing up for public lands,   Tania Outdoor Alliance   P.S. Your lawmakers work for you. Make sure they hear from you. Photo credit: Hunter Day

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