Public Lands

Western Lands and Rocky Mountain Advocate

Chandra, a Colorado native, serves as the Director of Rocky Mountain PEER. Formerly a staff attorney with Defenders of Wildlife specializing in endangered species and public lands issues, she has also worked for the U.S. Department of Justice and, under a legal fellowship, worked on a Superfund site with the Department of Energy. “I view my job as helping the region’s public service professionals do their jobs of protecting the diverse and abundant natural resources of the Rockies,” states Rosenthal. Chandra earned her law degree in 1993 at the Lewis and Clark Northwestern School of Law, where she focused her studies on environmental law.

Park Service Criminal Investigators Down by Nearly Half

by PEER | December 29, 2022
Investigation Triage Pulls Agents from Property and Drug Trafficking Cases ...

PEERMail | Stop Scamming Federal Wildlife Aid

by PEER | December 13, 2022
PEER’s work in Alaska is part of a broader effort to end federal support for ruinous and cruel wildlife management practices that are on the rise throughout the U.S ...

COMMENTARY | Park Service’s Inhumane Inertia

by Jeff Ruch | December 9, 2022
The Biden administration has left several disastrous Trump policies in place - from allowing inhumane hunting practices to not taking action on park crowding ...

PEERMail | Banning Lead Ammunition in National Parks

by PEER | November 29, 2022
One of the great tragedies of lead ammunition is the widespread poisoning it causes to wildlife ...

PEERMail | Are Wild Horses to Blame for Failing Rangeland Health?

by PEER | November 14, 2022
BLM must address overgrazing on public lands and stop scapegoating wild horses for failing land health ...

COMMENTARY | Home on the Range: Wild Horses on Public Lands

by Chandra Rosenthal | November 9, 2022
Wild horses are given a bad reputation for damaging public lands but BLM data shows that livestock are the real problem ...
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