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The Sierra Club's Lands Protection Program March 23, 2006: The Great Terrain Robbery: Public lands Giveaways for Highway Construction Protection of our nation's public lands and wild America is under assault. Using an antiquated loophole in a law known as Revised Statute (RS) 2477, outgoing Interior Secretary Gale Norton is pursing, without Congressional or public input, a policy that will put our wildlife refuges, national parks, monuments, wilderness areas, and other special public lands at risk of increased road development and damaging off-road vehicles. Read more and take action. Our Mission Statement Sierra Club's Lands Protection activists and staff work to preserve, protect and restore America's natural heritage by: Providing community members, policy makers, and the press with information about issues related to the Sierra Club's land and wildlife protection agenda; Empowering community members to promote policies that protect our nation's natural heritage; and Promoting the biological, scenic, recreational, and cultural values of America's special places. America's Wild Legacy, one of the Sierra Club's three conservation initiatives getting off the ground in 2006, falls under the Lands Protection Team. The Wild Legacy conservation initiative seeks to engage a broad spectrum of citizens around the value of protecting wildlife, public lands and special places and block threats to these lands from commercial logging, mining, abusive recreation, and overgrazing. More information about America's Wild Legacy will be available on the Sierra Club website in spring 2006, and will be linked here when it is available. See more Sierra Club programs the Lands Protection Team is involved with in the list below. Related information and programs: The Sierra Club's 2005 Great Outdoors Report, featuring American communities working to protect, conserve, and restore wild lands and neighborhood special places. The National Forests Campaign works to works to protect and restore healthy forest ecosytems and sustainable local economies, preserve our National Forests, and protect communities from the danger of fires. The Wildlands Campaign works to secure the lasting protection of the 100 million acres of wild America in the next decade. Wildlife and the Sierra Club The Sierra Club's Grazing Committee Off-Road Vehicles Photo courtesy Philip Greenspun. Up to Top HOME | Email Signup | About Us | Contact Us | Terms of Use