Center for Biological Diversity: Wild at Heart - A Center for Biological Diversity Report on Roadless Area Conservation (click here for print version) Heritage Forests Campaign: The Public vs.

The Great Lakes region contains nearly 85 percent of North America's surface freshwater, and more than 20 percent of the world's supply of surface freshwater. Lake Superior alone holds 10 percent of ...

America's rivers act as veins of life, threading across the nation to nurture countless plant and animal species with their precious water and bringing beauty and quiet-recreation opportunities to ...

Ecological restoration is the process of reclaiming habitat and ecosystem functions by restoring the lands and waters on which plants and animals depend. Restoration is a corrective step that involves ...

Ignoring opposition from states, environmentalists, and private property owners, in October 2007 the Department of Energy designated a vast, 45-million-acre area in southern California and western ...

Vermont's 6,500-mile snowmobile trail network, maintained and operated by the Vermont Association of Snow Travelers and its associated member clubs, includes several hundred miles of trail on the ...

A sweeping look across southeastern California's Algodones Dunes betrays little but a wide expanse of rolling dunes and deep-blue desert sky. But just at and beneath the surface of the shifting sands, ...

In America the Northeast is where the sun first rises. This region — stretching from Pennsylvania to Maine — was also among the earliest in our country to be settled by European colonists. It was once ...

Covering more than 25 million acres — about a fourth of California — the geologically diverse California Desert Conservation Area includes sand dunes, canyons, dry lakes, 90 mountain ranges, and 65 ...

Undisturbed forests are crucial for a healthy climate, continuously taking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in trees, shrubs and soil. But logging can transform a swath of forest from ...

In a region where large tracts of wild, unroaded land are rare, the importance of New England's national forest roadless areas — to both wildlife and people — is immense. Many of these places are in ...

Here are just some of the ways we’re fighting to save the river right now. We’re fighting to stop the Vigneto development, which would transform 12,167 acres of largely undeveloped habitat into ...