Sentences with phrase «wilderness protection»

But some environmental advocates say his administration has placed local desires for easy recreational access ahead of wilderness protection.

Friends of Browns Canyon officially forms to obtain local community and bipartisan support for getting formal wilderness protection for the area.

Canadian experience in wilderness protection provides an example of forest conservation polices and laws that have generally been hostile to, and systematically biased against, Indigenous peoples because they have denied Indigenous peoples control over their territories and access to life - saving forest resources.

The coalition is seeking wilderness protection for the most sensitive waters, wildlife habitat and forests, totaling over 30,000 acres — the centerpiece of which is the 20,500 - acre Boreas Ponds tract.

The 1964 Wilderness Protection Act gave Congress the authority to protect lands from further development.

I got turned on to environmentalism by loving to hike and getting into wilderness protection.

They studied conservation values like wilderness protection and restoration processes as well as a number of variables, including how much human modification the land has experienced, how important the land is as a natural linkage between protected areas, how well the land's ecosystems are represented within existing protected areas, and whether a place is rich in rare and endemic species.

(11/11/2009) Meeting this week in Merida, Mexico, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) has released a declaration that calls for increasing wilderness protections in an effort to mitigate climate change.

Think: wilderness protection schemes, like national parks in Canada, that have ejected Indigenous peoples from their traditional territories rendering them homeless and prevented from using their traditional lands for subsistence.)

The money will be used for habitat restoration, wilderness protection and the restoration of historic properties, among other uses.

RGGI money is intended for clean energy initiatives, so using it for wilderness protection has been controversial among environmental groups.

Home to a variety of fauna and flora unique to Kangaroo Island, the park incorporates almost 20 per cent of the island and much of it is a Wilderness Protection Area.

West Bay Hollow is another shorter but spectacular option, or the scenic Ravine des Casoars walk in the Wilderness Protection Area.

I have just been re-reading Aldo Leopold, John Muir, Emerson, Thoreau and the many other advocates for wilderness protection some hundred years or so ago.

He has also supported ocean health, focusing on issues such as marine debris, wilderness protection, and clean air and water.