LAS VEGAS, NV. — Sierra Club’s Toiyabe Chapter and community members gathered Friday outside the Las Vegas headquarters of Kingsbarn Realty Capital for a demonstration opposing a proposed land exchange in Yosemite National Park. Participants called on the company and Interior Secretary Burgum to abandon the deal and urged federal lawmakers to protect Yosemite’s public lands.
JACKSON, WY — Major League Baseball will no longer consider Grand Teton National Park as a site for a future game, Commissioner Rob Manfred told local leaders in a letter Thursday. The decision follows mass public opposition to the idea of building a ballpark inside the park.
In response to the news, Chris Kassar, director of the Sierra Club’s Wyoming chapter, issued the following statement:
JACKSON, WY — According to reports from The Washington Post, Major League Baseball is actively considering building a ballpark inside a national park to host a future game. Three possible sites within Grand Teton National Park were examined, with National Park Service Deputy Director, Frank Lands, reportedly looking at the sites during a visit that coincided with MLB’s.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced that the Trump administration plans to break ground within two weeks on Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch at Memorial Circle, between Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. The administration is preparing to start this project even though it has yet to receive final approval from federal planners.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In honor of the National Park Service’s (NPS) 110th anniversary, Loren Blackford, the Executive Director of Sierra Club, wrote an opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle about how the Trump administration has abandoned a long-standing, bipartisan record of supporting NPS and its mission to in
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has spent over a year quietly pressing the National Park Service to give up land inside Yosemite National Park so a private developer can build a road connecting its own property to park land, according to a new investigation from NOTUS. If approved, the corrupt back-room deal would break with a commitment dating back more than 150 years to protect Yosemite for the public good.
EL PASO, TX — Today, Sierra Club along with its Lone Star Chapter and the National Parks Conservation Association filed an amicus brief supporting the Center for Biological Diversity’s lawsuit to stop construction of a border barrier and related infrastructure in and around Big Bend National Park.
Both organizations are represented by Earthjustice.
Salt Lake City – Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its latest step to eliminate protections under the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, claiming the move is necessary to reduce wildfire risk and expand forest management. Since the Forest Service created the Roadless Rule in 2001, it has protected undeveloped roadless areas across the country.
Today, the Trump administration announced it is repealing the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This measure conserves more than 58 million acres of National Forest lands by preventing road building, hardrock mining, oil and gas and industrial logging, and was one of the most popular rules in U.S. history after an extensive public process to generate more than 1.6 million comments.
EL PASO, TX — Following widespread bipartisan outrage, Donald Trump’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott announced Monday that the agency is temporarily pausing all construction activity in Big Bend National Park as he visits the site this week. Scott did not say how long the pause would last or commit to canceling the project.
AUSTIN, TX — Federal contractors moved heavy equipment into Big Bend National Park earlier this week and began bulldozing new roads Wednesday, putting into motion the first use of sweeping federal border-construction waiver authority inside a National Park.