Western Watersheds Project

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WWP Online Messenger #140
WWP Wins Preliminary Injunction Restoring Federal Protections to Northern Rocky Mountain Wolves

News Release:
WWP Wins Court Order Overturning Bush Administration Decision Not To List Slickspot Peppergrass

Photos: Beaverhead Deerlodge NF Grazing

News Release:
Litigation Filed in Thurston County Superior Court To Challenge Livestock Grazing of Quilomene/Whiskey Dick Wildlife Area

WWP Online Messenger #137
WWP Joins fight to prevent delisting of wolves in Northern Rockies

NRM Wolf Delisting Legal Filings

Watersheds Messenger
Spring '08

WWP Joins Coailition to End Federal Predator Killing
PR Letter to Congress

News Release
Federal AUM Fees Released;
Wildlife & Public Looted Again !

Leadbelt Allotment Report

Casper Star Tribute:
[WWP] sues on Bighorn grazing

Hardware Ranch Report

Pass Creek Allotment Videos

Copper Basin Allotment Photos

Job Opening

Recent Court Victories

July 18
**WWP & co-plaintifs win injunction of delisting of Northern Rocky Mountain Wolves **
Wolves regain protection !
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June 4
WWP wins Slickspot Peppergrass litigation
FWS ordered to reconsider ESA protection !
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December 4
**WWP wins Greater Sage Grouse litigation**
FWS ordered to reconsider ESA protection !
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November 13
Bighorn Sheep on Allison-Berg Allotment protected
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September 30
BLM ordered to halt increase in cattle on Ord Mtn. in California citing danger to Desert Tortoise
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September 26
Interior ordered to Prepare new 90-Day Finding considering the listing of Pygmy Rabbits
Read The Order

June 10, 2007
160,000,000 Acres Affected
WWP Wins A Great Victory Overturning The Bush Administration’s BLM’s Grazing Regulations
Read the Decision

“Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”
- Aldo Leopold 1949 A Sand County Almanac

We all have our individual reasons; memories which evoke the inspirational experience and child-like wonder of our public lands and diverse wildlife. The value of this common trust and of our environmental heritage are worth fighting for.

WWP's Wolf Update

**July 18 - Judge Molloy grants WWP & 10 other advocacy groups' motion for preliminary injunction - Northern Rocky Mountain wolves regain federal protection!**
Read the Order
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Western Watersheds Project encourages public lands agencies to manage your public lands in the public interest by ensuring that management upholds its legal obligation to make decisions based on verifiable science.

Western Watersheds Project is a non-profit conservation group founded in 1993 which now administers offices in 5 western states. The mission of Western Watersheds Project is to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives and litigation...

"A reduction in beef and other meat consumption is the most potent single act you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources. Our choices do matter. What's healthiest for each of us personally is also healthiest for the life support system of our precious, but wounded planet."
-- JOHN ROBBINS, author - Diet for a New America; President, EarthSave Foundation