Resilient Habitats

Vision

1. Increase the resilience of natural systems on all federal lands and waters.
2. Increase the resilience of priority wildlife habitats in every state and Puerto Rico.
3. Ensure 20 million acres of private lands and waters are managed in perpetuity as resilient habitats.
4. Protect natural systems and associated human communities in all major ecosystems across the country from the damaging effects of climate disruption.
5. Create climate-smart habitats in 10 targeted ecosystems by 2020. Those ecosytems are: Adirondacks to Acadia, Greater Yellowstone, Greater Everglades, California Coast, Sierra Nevada, Greater Quetico/Superior, Olympic Peninsula/North Cascades/Puget Sound, Greater Grand Canyon/Colorado Plateau, Gulf Coast, and America's Arctic.

Campaign Achievements

• Blocked uranium mining in the Greater Grand Canyon Ecosystem.
• Under pressure from the Sierra Club, in spring 2009, Congress passed legislation protecting two million acres of new wilderness areas, parks, and wild rivers. Protecting and restoring natural areas helps recover the climate by sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide pollution.
• Secured private forest lands in Maine Woods to build resilient habitats in our proposed 100 Mile Wilderness.
• After over a decade of work by the Sierra Club and its allies to restore Florida wetlands for local animals like the Florida panther, the state of Florida announced it will purchase nearly 27,000 acres of sugarcane fields from U.S. Sugar, to be restored to their natural wetland state.
• Breached or removed dams and protected watersheds on key Western salmon streams to allow recovery and build strong ecosystems.