(New York Times) In April, the government of Premier Jean Charest introduced a bill in the Quebec National Assembly that seeks to protect nearly 150 million acres — half of northern Quebec, an area the size of France — from industrial development, including logging, mining and petroleum exploration.

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Jane Danowitz, director of the Pew Environment Group’s U.S. public lands program, issued the following statement regarding an Obama administration plan that would replace the national Roadless Area Conservation Rule in Colorado’s national forests.

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Learn more about Colorado's new roadless forest plan.

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Under H.R. 1505, as reported out of House Natural Resources Committee April 17, 36 environmental and other protective statutes would be suspended on America’s public lands within 100 miles of U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada, including national parks, monuments, Indian reservations, wilderness, wildlife refuges, and other lands managed by U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture.

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The future of Alaska's 22-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve is being decided now, and we need your help to ensure that this unique ecosystem is protected!

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The Department of the Interior wants to know your views on four management approaches for Alaska's 22-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve. Learn more about these alternatives and why we must protect this unique ecosystem.

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Our ancestors had the forethought to set aside some of these amazing places as national parks, forests, and wilderness areas, and we continue to work to protect even more of them today. We are thankful  for our wild places and would like to celebrate them in photos.

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Mathew Jacobson, manager of the Pew Environment Group’s International Boreal Conservation Campaign in Quebec, issued the following statement today after the Quebec government introduced legislation to protect half of northern Quebec – nearly 600,000 square kilometers, an area about the size of France – from all industrial activity.

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Josh Reichert, Managing Director of the Pew Environment Group, responds to the op-ed "NGOs should reveal funding sources."

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Protecting open spaces and wildplaces on America’s public lands for future generations: That is the mission of Pew’s Campaign for America’s Wilderness.

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Seventy-five years ago, Theodor Geisel wrote the first of his 44 popular books for children under the pen name Dr. Seuss. Included among such fanciful classics as "The Cat in the Hat" and "Green Eggs and Ham" is one of my family's all-time favorites, "The Lorax." My wife and I can hardly wait to take our children to see the new film adaptation - not only for fun but because it explains so well what I do.

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View maps showing the Bureau of Land Management's holdings.

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(Denver Post) Colorado officials are making an intense final push to establish their own rule for managing the last roadless national forests in the state.

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Jane Danowitz, director of the Pew Environment Group’s U.S. public lands program, issued the following statement regarding a notice from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver that it will not reconsider its October 2011 decision that upheld the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. A request for a rehearing of the case had been made by the State of Wyoming and the Colorado Mining Association.

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(Associated Press) A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Wyoming's request to reconsider a decision upholding a 2001 rule barring development on nearly 50 millions of acres of roadless areas in national forests.

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