• Land
• People

Federal disaster recovery dollars increase inequality and favor white families

An NPR investigation released this week has revealed that across the country, white Americans and those with more wealth often receive more federal dollars after a disaster than do minorities and those with less wealth. While natural disasters are becoming more common in America as a result of climate change( in the early and mid-20th century, […]

• Land

U.S. to FINALLY get volcano early warning system

• geology
• USGS
• volcano

As the Sierra Club explained, on Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed the Natural Resources Management Act, a lands conservation bill that combines more than 100 pieces of legislation protecting 3-million-plus acres of land. The bill, which the Senate overwhelmingly passed two weeks ago, also classifies hundreds of miles of US rivers as wild, scenic, […]

• Land

Protecting the Grand Canyon from mining on its 100th anniversary

• Arizona
• Grand Canyon
• Interior
• mining
• uranium

Yesterday Grand Canyon National Park celebrated its 100th birthday. Fortune explained it best: “on Feb. 26, 1919, Congress passed legislation backed by President Woodrow Wilson recognizing the canyon as a national park. The natural wonder has become an American symbol and a space for visitors to connect with the raw outdoors. The scenic landscape holds […]

• Land

Hipsters fueling illicit cactus trade

• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• cactus
• National Park Service
• NPS
• plants
• poaching

Cacti and succulents have rapidly grown in popularity in the past few years and it turns out that the insatiable demand to have the trendy plants adorn homes is driving poachers to dig them up from the wild and increasingly on public lands. The Guardian recently reported in its in-depth piece that “in the US […]

• Land

One cool thing: 9 pioneering African American outdoorspeople

• Black History Month
• explorers

Check out Sierra Club’s recent profile of 9 pioneering African American outdoorspeople. We highly recommend that you read the entire profile of the following trailblazers and explorers

• Land

FDR’s New Deal Was Green

• CCC
• conservation
• Dust Bowl
• FDR
• floods
• GND
• Green New Deal
• Hurricanes
• National Forests
• National Parks
• soil erosion
• the New Deal
• trails

As we contemplate the sweeping Green New Deal resolution recently introduced, which promises that “public lands, waters, and oceans are protected” and that all Americans have “access to nature,” we should look back at the very green legacy of  FDR’s New Deal.  As part of historic first 100 days legislation, Roosevelt proposed the Emergency Conservation Work (EWC) Act, more commonly known as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to put to work unemployed young men in a peacetime “army” and “send them into battle” against destruction and erosion of our country’s natural resources.