Your Share - July 2009
"Sustainable Systems at Work"
Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI) has a new course for you. Sustainable Systems at Work, a new discussion course designed to help corporate leaders and their employees address pressing environmental challenges through companywide best practices. Learn more>
Hells Canyon Preservation Council
Tackles Off-roaders
In the past, ATV riders and other off-roaders could go anywhere in most national forests so long as there wasn't a sign telling them they couldn't. Now they can't go anywhere except where the new maps tell them they can.
"The Wallowa-Whitman is getting national attention in part because it is so roaded and in part because we have a serious motorized recreation issue here," said Greg Dyson, executive director of the Hells Canyon Preservation Council, which advocates for limiting ATV areas. Read article by Matt Preusch/The Oregonian>
Conservation: An Investment that Pays
From Trust for Public Land
Too often, we still hear the argument that creating parks and conserving land is too expensive, especially in hard economic times. Trust for Public Land released a new report citing many examples that promote conservation for its many benefits, including how parks and open spaces boost a community's bottom line. Download report>
All Creatures Great and Small and... Ugly
From The Nature Conservancy
Scientists and ecologists alike have commented on the tendency for the less visually appealing endangered species to be left behind, while their cute and fuzzy counterparts receive protection. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in a recent Washington Post article, this is starting to change. More>
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