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Holiday In Wales The Bush administration today issued national policy guidance preventing the Bureau of Land Management from inventorying or protecting wilderness-quality lands - a move that formalizes a backroom court settlement between the administration and Utah Governor Mike Leavitt. The new directive by the Department of the Interior for its land managers reverses decades of wilderness policy and puts the interests of drilling, mining, logging and road construction ahead of the public interest. This directive goes beyond what even Interior Secretary James Watt proposed to do during the Reagan administration, and is the latest of a number of steps the Bush Administration has taken to weaken protection for America's wilderness areas.

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Susan Whitmore, Campaign for America's Wilderness, (202) 266-0435
Annie Strickler, Sierra Club, (202) 675-2384
David Slater, The Wilderness Society, (202) 429-8441

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First the Bush administration removed the tools from the toolbox which provides federal land managers with the ability to manage our public lands for multiple uses. Now it has thrown the toolbox into the trash," said Mike Matz, executive director of the Campaign for America's Wilderness. "Despite overwhelming public support for protecting our nation's special wild lands, this administration refuses to include wilderness in its vocabulary and to keep wilderness recommendations on the table as a tool for federal agencies. Our children and theirs will be the ultimate losers in this sellout of America's wild heritage to corporate interests."

Holiday Last Minute Wales In April, the Department of Interior "settled" a lawsuit with the state of Utah that impacted tens of millions of acres across the West. The backroom deal rescinded interim protections for millions of acres of wilderness-quality lands and reversed the department's long-standing policy to inventory and recommend lands for wilderness designation. Land managers, tasked with planning the use of public land by the BLM, have been without formal guidance on how to implement the profound policy changes resulting from this backdoor deal. In addition, many local BLM staff first learned of the administration's actions through media reports. As part of the settlement, the Bush administration threw out the Wilderness Inventory Handbook, which guided land managers in fairly inventorying wilderness-quality lands and protecting them during BLM land use planning - as required by the Federal Land Policy Management Act (FLPMA).

Catering Holiday Self Wales "This administration has gone to great lengths to create new policies that will all but ensure that even wilderness-quality lands never receive formal protection," said The Wilderness Society's David Alberswerth. "Even though this action is consistent with the Administration's anti-conservation policies, it's hard not to be shocked by the gyrations they're going through to open up our last wild lands."

Holiday Wales Walking The new directive, in the form of an instruction memorandum, specifically prevents land managers from inventorying and recommending BLM land for wilderness study and designation. The 80,000-acre Sand Tank Mountains in Arizona, recently acquired from the Department of Defense, and the spectacular 38,000-acre Roan Plateau in Colorado (transferred to BLM in 1997) are among the first casualties of this policy change and now officially lose any opportunity for wilderness consideration and protection. BLM's abandonment of protection for wilderness lands outside the Reagan-era wilderness reviews revokes a policy followed by every president since Jimmy Carter.

Family Holiday Wales "Even James Watt understood that BLM has broad authority to protect wilderness lands, and used that authority to protect such lands," said Ted Zukoski, an attorney at Earthjustice, which is challenging the unlawful Utah-DOI settlement. "The extreme, radical position taken by this administration rolls back more than a quarter-century of settled law and policy."

Holiday Riding Wales For nearly three decades, on-the-ground BLM management experts considered the values of wilderness on the same level as other possible land uses -- including development -- and provided the American public an opportunity to have a voice in the use decision.

Adventure Holiday Wales The guidelines suggest that BLM will have the authority to protect "scenic values," "unfragmented habitat," and restrict ORV use, but the steps the agency must go through essentially preclude any true protection of wilderness-quality lands as wilderness study areas.

Holiday Park South Wales "The Bush administration has effectively put a freeze on important protections for wilderness nationwide," said Carl Pope, Sierra Club executive director. "There is a better way. Americans support continued protection for remaining swaths of wilderness, not a top-down directive that biases public lands decisions in favor of extractive industries."

Cottage Holiday Wales The Bush Administration often touts the 22 million acres of wilderness areas and wilderness study areas (WSAs) on its lands as evidence that no more protection of these areas is needed. But that 22 million acres is less than 10 percent of all public lands managed by BLM. In addition, the Interior Department has petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court decision that permits citizens to hold the Department accountable when it fails to protect wilderness character.

Holiday In Wales The Administration also touts alternate designations such as "Areas of Critical Environmental Concern" or ACECs, as suitable replacements for wilderness. But these areas are often open to destructive uses such as oil and gas drilling, logging or mining. For example, one-third of all ACECs in Colorado have already been leased for drilling.

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Holiday Wales Jessica Hodge
Lands Protection Program
Sierra Club
tel: 202.675.7910
fax: 202.547.6009

jessica.hodge@sierraclub.org

Topic: White House