Owyhee Canyonlands National Monument Campaign Launches
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星期三, 九月 6, 2023
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ONTARIO, Ore., Sept. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A new campaign, Protect the Owyhee Canyonlands, launched today calling for National Monument designation before the end of 2024. Founding campaign members include: The Wilderness Society, Oregon Natural Desert Association, Conservation Lands Foundation, Friends of the Owyhee, People of Red Mountain, Oregon League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club Oregon Chapter, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, American Whitewater, Great Basin Resource Watch, and others.
Key Points:
- ONTARIO, Ore., Sept. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A new campaign, Protect the Owyhee Canyonlands , launched today calling for National Monument designation before the end of 2024.
- Owyhee Canyonlands National Monument Campaign Calls on Biden, Sens Wyden, Merkley to protect OR's Owyhee Canyonlands
The Owyhee Canyonlands is the largest conservation opportunity in the American West, boasting millions of acres of deep canyons, rolling sagebrush grasslands, and rushing rivers worthy of National Monument status. - "Formed over millions of years, the Owyhee Canyonlands is a wild and iconic landscape that deserves permanent protection as a National Monument," said Nicole Layman, Deputy Vice President of Conservation Campaigns, The Wilderness Society .
- The national monument campaign launches at a critical moment in the three-decades-long effort to protect the Owyhee Canyonlands.