Sentences with phrase «wilderness society president»
«The practical effect could be to open all designated wilderness areas to all - terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, motorbikes, motorboats, chainsaws and other motorized vehicles and equipment...» warns Wilderness Society president William Meadows in a letter to Congress.
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«The Department of the Interior is pursuing an irresponsibly aggressive timeline for Arctic Refuge drilling that reflects the Trump administration's eagerness to turn over America's public lands to private industry for development,» Jamie Williams, president of the Wilderness Society in Washington, D.C., said in a statement.
«The review process that the Trump administration has been undertaking has been fairly arbitrary, so it is honestly a guessing game as to which monuments are most at risk and how the review is being conducted and whose voices are being heard to drive Secretary Zinke's decision,» the Wilderness Society's vice president for conservation, Melyssa Watson, said in a news conference yesterday.
«While he has steered clear of efforts to sell off public lands and supported the Land and Water Conservation Fund, far more often Rep. Zinke has advanced policies that favor special interests,» said Jamie Williams, president of the Wilderness Society, in a statement.
The groups challenging President Trump's decision are: League of Conservation Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Alaska Wilderness League, Defenders of Wildlife, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands), Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace and The Wilderness Society.