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Founder/Director:
Linda Wilcox
Members:
Isaiah SpiveyLinks Section
 | UNITED FOR PEACE |
| ENVIRONMENTAL OUTREACH |
| CARE |
| EARTH STEWARDS |
| EARTH STONE HEALTHY LIVING |
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The Health of our Forest
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The people of the United States own more than 726 million acres of land, including parks, forests, grasslands and wilderness. Many of these lands -- our natural and historic heritage -- are being harmed by logging, mining, drilling, and livestock grazing. What's more, the below-market prices these industries often pay to use the land encourage destructive practices. To preserve the wildlife and ecosystems these lands support and the recreational and spiritual enrichment they offer, NRDC works to change the laws that govern commercial uses of public lands, many of which date back to the nineteenth century. We also intervene in federal decisionmaking processes to encourage environmentally sound land management.
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
America's wildlands are among the most beautiful and important natural places on earth -- and the most vulnerable. They are under constant threat, as industries repeatedly attempt to open them to oil drilling, mining and other development. The only way to shield these national treasures is by persuading the government to grant them permanent protection. NRDC has helped win this protection for millions of acres including California's giant sequoia forests and Utah's spectacular red rock canyons. Now we are campaigning for a national monument on Alaska's fragile Arctic coast. We will continue to press the federal government to place wildlands off-limits to industry so that they stay wild forever.
