Protecting America’s Public Lands
Roughly 300 million acres of American lands, most in the West, are set aside as public lands and maintained using taxes paid by all Americans. These lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, and National Wildlife Refuge System are by charter supposed to be managed for multiple uses including recreation and provision of wildlife habitat and clean water sources. Increasingly, however, they are run for the benefit of extractive industries and with little regard for the preservation of the rare wildlife or iconic natural beauty for which they are famous.
With the help of conscientious range management specialists, scientists, law enforcement officers and other workers within these agencies, PEER is uncovering how our precious national heritage is being sold to the highest bidder, often under the direction of poorly qualified and illegally appointed political appointees.
Livestock grazing allows heavily subsidized private operators to degrade our public lands.
Our national parks are drowning in a rising tide of plastic waste.
Cell phone towers spread across national parks without proper planning and public input.
Off-road vehicle abuse is a growing problem on our public lands, especially in the West.
Environmental and public health risks are being ignored by regulatory agencies and decisions heavily influenced by profit-driven industries.
Twenty-five million acres of recommended wilderness in our national park system are in limbo, marooned by politics.
Unregulated air tours threaten the serenity of national parks and are a danger to wildlife.
REPORT | The Biden Administration’s Bureau of Land Management
As the Biden administration nears its halfway point, there are both encouraging signs of progress and plenty of room for growth when it comes to conserving public lands. Stronger leadership from the Biden administration and within federal land agencies is critical to act on both the climate and biodiversity crises. No public lands agency more epitomizes the challenges and opportunities ahead than the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) – the country’s largest land manager at more than 245 million acres.
Mapping Rangeland Health
Our interactive BLM Rangeland Health Standards Evaluation Data (2020) on MangoMaps is based on data from 2020, obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. PEER worked with a former BLM contractor to analyze what these records reveal about the condition of our public lands and BLM’s discharge of its duties to safeguard them.
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NEWS FROM PEER
Inspector General Opens Bison Range Investigation
“Independent Evaluation” of Environmental, Financial and Operational Problems
Lawsuit Filed to Bar GE Crops From National Wildlife Refuge
Delaware’s Bombay Hook Lacks Required Environmental Review and Justification
Call for Inspector General Review of Bison Range Operations
Documents Show Poaching, Policing, Pesticide and Financial Problems on Refuge
National Park Oil Drilling Rules Slated for Improvement
New Protections Should Be Extended Beyond Oil & Gas to All Mineral Extraction
New Science Rules for Offshore Drilling Send Mixed Message
MMS “Transparency” Mandate Riddled with Welter of Non-Release Categories
Park Bio-Prospecting Plan Will Be a Money-Loser
Secret Corporate Royalty Plans Force Parks to Eat High Administrative Costs
Off-Roading Ends Until California Park Cleans up Its Act
Clean Water Victory at Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area
California OHV Dollars Can Fund Non-Motorized Recreation
Legal Opinion May Open New Support Base for Floundering State Parks
Massive Mining Blow-Out Draws Only Slap on Wrist
200 Sites Still Vulnerable As Long Shrouded IG Report Fuels Cover-up Charges
Secret California Park Give-Away
Back Door Proposal to Transfer Lands from Tolowa Dunes State Park
Mojave Off-Road Plan Struck Down in Federal Court
BLM Told to Redesign Bush-Era ORV Plan for Mojave Desert Federal Lands
Reward Offered for OHV Vandals Who Trashed Meadow
Reward Offered for OHV Vandals Who Trashed Meadow Sacramento — Conservationists are offering a reward for information leading to the identification and conviction of dirt bikers who damaged a beautiful mountain meadow that is vital habitat for the Yosemite toad, a...
Fuel Tax Surplus Could Save California State Parks
Funds Earmarked for Off-Road Recreation Which Generates Only 1/6th of Revenue
One-Third of Wildlife Refuges Use GM Crops in Southeast
Genetically Modified Seeds Okayed by Obama Fish & Wildlife Service Director Pick Hamilton
America’s Ten Most Imperiled Wildlife Refuges
Climate Change and Coping with Climate Change Challenge Nature Sanctuaries
Grand Canyon Threatened by Off-Road Vehicle Plan
Groups Protest ORV Penetration into Habitat and Across Archaeological Sites
Old Faithful Vandals Caught on Webcam
“Geyser Gazers” Call in Violation in Yellowstone’s First Cyber-Enforcement Case
Commercial Aquaculture in Wilderness Pushed by Key Senator
Point Reyes National Seashore Oyster Farm Dispute Opens Legal Can of Worms
National Parks Should Stick to Their Guns on Lead AMMO Ban
Diverse Coalition Urges Secretary Salazar to Meet Goal of Going Lead-Free by 2010
Regional Water Board Orders Clean-Up of Rubicon Trail
Iconic Off-Road Trail Has Lost Its Way
