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'It's the worst thing that ever happened to me in the woods, having a man with a gun pointed at my chest with his finger on the trigger calling me [...]

According to one recent poll, conducted by Peter Hart Research, most Americans believe that protecting our environment is more important than promoting economic development. Three out of four Americans, a [...]

The environmental organization Greenpeace recently release a list of groups it calls "antienvironmental." But the leaders of most of these claim the label is unfair - they just want to […]

The Wise Use movement has countered environmentalist actions since the 1970s. The group advocates the wise use of natural resources rather than outright protection. Rather than fight Wise Use, environmentalists should find ways to work with the group in the conservation of natural resources.

Who benefits when you donate money to the Alliance for Environment and Resources, the Environmental Conservation Organization, the Abundant Wildlife Society, the Wilderness Impact Research Foundation, or Citizens for the [...]

The growing political power of the environmental movement has led to increasing citizen lawsuits against private property owners in the American West over their plans to exploit their land in the name of economic interest. This is the belief of William Perry Pendley, president of Mountain States Legal Foundation of Denver, CO, and a former US Dept. of Interior official. Pendley, who set forth his views in the book 'War on the West,' points to the case between the state of Michigan and Miller Brothers as an example of the land-use controversy and the complex legal issues surrounding it.

On November 14, 1994, Ellen Gray, an organizer with the Pilchuck Audubon Society in Everett, Washington, had just finished testifying at a County Council hearing in favor of a land-use [...]

The property rights movement was formed in response to the confiscation of numerous properties as a result of the increasing number of environmental regulations. It is considered a grassroots movement and has no central leader., In the 1980's, Peggy Reigle was vice president of finance for the New York Daily News. But she grew tired of battling printers' and drivers' unions and so she retired [...]

Capitol Hill in 1994 was a graveyard for long-overdue reforms of basic environmental and public-lands laws, including the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, Superfund, the Endangered Species [...]

Not since the heyday of James Watt have environmentalists been faced with such daunting challenges. As our problems multiply, those in a position to help seem increasingly unwilling or unable [...]