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• Grizzly bear death at bait station precisely what conservation groups’ lawsuit hoped to prevent (6/20/2024)
• Conservation groups challenge federal decision to deny western wolves protections (4/8/2024)
• Court ruling halts wolf trapping and snaring in Idaho grizzly bear habitat (3/20/2024)
• Conservation groups initiate legal action against Feds for failing to protect wolves (2/7/2024)
• Feds find western wolves unworthy of Endangered Species Act protection; conservation groups prepare for legal action (2/2/2024)
• Media Advisory: Federal court in Boise will hold hearing January 4, 2024 on Idaho wolf trapping (1/4/2024)
• Wilderness Watch sues U.S. Forest Service to protect Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness from fish poisoning and helicopters (11/8/2023)
• Conservation groups sue National Park Service to protect Wilderness in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks (9/25/2023)
• Court injunction stops U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s unlawful decision to construct and operate a permanent water-diversion pipeline and permanently alter natural conditions within the Red Rock Lakes Wilderness in southwestern Montana (8/2/2023)
• Conservation groups sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect Red Rock Lakes Wilderness (6/26/2023)
• Lawsuit challenges unlawful expansion of aircraft landing areas in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness (6/20/2023)

• Mission Mountains Wilderness targeted for heavy-handed manipulations, 11/2/21

• Groups File Promise to Challenge Idaho’s New Harmful Wolf Hunting Laws, 7/20/21
• Conservation Groups to Sec. Vilsack: Tell the Forest Service to Reduce Harmful Livestock Grazing in the Drought-stricken West, 7/16/21
• WW and allies urge Forest Service to drop poisoning proposal for Scapegoat Wilderness as public opposition grows, 3/12/21

• Wildlife, wilderness advocates challenge ‘no significant impact’ of grazing on 270K acres in NM, AZ, 1/14/21

• Groups await their day in court after judge rules against injunction in Arctic Refuge case, 1/5/21

• Indigenous, allied groups go to court to stop issuance of Arctic Refuge leases, 12/15/20
• Court upholds prohibition of brown bear baiting in the Kenai Refuge, 11/18/20
• Groups urge the public to submit written comments on controversial Kenai Rule after final public hearing canceled, 11/2/20
• Mission Mountains Wilderness targeted for heavy-handed management, 10/15/20
• Controversial Kenai NWR Baiting and Trapping Rule gets extended public comment, 10/8/20
• Thirteen groups sue Interior, NPS for paving way for destructive hunting practices national preserves, 8/26/20
• Gwich’in & allied groups sue Trump agencies for illegal lease program in Arctic Refuge, 8/24/20
• BLM Returns to Drawing Board on Huge Simplot Grazing Lease Renewal in Southwest Idaho, 8/7/20
• Forest Service Needs to Prosecute Illegal Helicopter Landing in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, 6/4/20

• Court Affirms Key Rulings to Prevent Further Illegal Helicopter Intrusions in Premiere Idaho Wilderness Area, 3/9/20

• Public Requests More Time and More Meetings for BLM’s Grazing Regulations Revisions, 2/18/20
• Voluntary Grazing Permit Retirement Act introduced in Congress to protect public lands, Wilderness and wildlife, 1/30/20
• Lawsuit to Restore E-Bikes Ban in National Parks, 12/5/19
• Lawsuit challenges Trump administration’s new land swap deal to bulldoze a road in Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, 8/7/19
• Conservation groups applaud Forest Service decision rescinding approval of chainsaws in Wilderness, 6/11/19
• Grizzly deaths spur bear baiting challenge in Idaho, Wyoming, 6/5/19
• Forest Service challenged on allowing chainsaws in Wilderness, 5/22/19
• 150 conservation groups tell Congress: Keep bikes out of Wilderness, 6/6/18
• Conservation groups file objection to helicopter-assisted game-farming project in Wasatch Wildernesses, 2/7/18
• Conservationists sue Interior Secretary Zinke to prevent a road through the Izembek Wilderness, 1/31/18
• Zinke sneak attack: Build road through Izembek Wilderness, 1/22/18
• Conservation groups file objection to helicopter-assisted game-farming project in Wasatch Wildernesses, 1/19/18
• Rep Rob Bishop’s House Natural Resources Committee to ‘mark up’ GOP bill opening all Wilderness areas to bikes and other wheeled contraptions, 12/12/17
• Conservation organizations strongly object to anti-Wilderness provisions in NRA-backed “Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) Act, 9/11/17
• Conservation groups join lawsuits on predator control, 2/8/17
• Court rules that Forest Service illegally authorized helicopter intrusions in premiere Wilderness area, 1/19/17