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We advance continental-scale conservation that recovers wild species, restores wild landscapes, and fosters coexistence with wild nature. bio.site/rewilding

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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 13h
Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper #fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big #dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing northeastern streams and rivers—one tiny dam at a time.
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Death by a Thousand Dams | bioGraphic
Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing…
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 29/09/2026
There’s love and passion in every frame, a vibrant cast of animal characters, and a meaningful call for #conservation action. (5)
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Episode 184: A Look Inside the Wild Heart of Texas with Ben Masters
Texas is a land shaped by water; its rivers are the arteries that deliver life and nourish ecosystems. “Deep in the Heart 2” brings us otters making a comeback, mountain lions on the prowl,…
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 29/09/2026
Ben’s sincerest hope is that the movie inspires millions of Texans to float, love, and protect the thousands of miles of incredible rivers, countless springs and creeks, and fertile bays and estuaries that are the lifeblood of the Lone Star State. (4)
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 29/09/2026
#Texas is a land shaped by water; its rivers are the arteries that deliver life & nourish ecosystems. “Deep in the Heart 2” brings us otters making a comeback, mountain lions on the prowl, mesmerizing underwater footage, & a river #rewilding success story that you have to see and hear to believe.(3)
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 29/09/2026
We dig into his latest feature, “Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers”, what it takes to spend months in the field tracking secretive predators, and why long-term conservation in a state that is 95% privately owned requires 100-year thinking & multi-generational ranch stewardship. (2)
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 29/09/2026
Independent filmmaker and wildlife biologist Ben Masters, founder of Fin & Fur Films, joins the Rewilding Earth #Podcast to discuss his journey from riding wild mustangs across the Continental Divide for “Unbranded” to capturing cinematic, Planet Earth-style natural history in North America. (1)
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 28/09/2026
With around 30% of India’s #tigers living outside its 58 tiger reserves, landscape-scale management that maintains and reconnects wildlife corridors is crucial to keep both people and tigers safe, as well as careful monitoring of dispersing tigers and better management of human-wildlife conflict.
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India’s tiger success brings a new challenge: Living alongside the big cats
Forty-five-year-old Mahadeva Gowda was tending to his cotton farm in the village of Badagalapura in the southern Indian state of Karnataka when a tiger lunged at him from behind. He was caught…
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 27/09/2026
A new scientific publication details surprising results from marine surveys of Patagonia’s #kelp forests, comparing current conditions to data collected 50 years ago. While these vast underwater ecosystems remain largely intact, several species are in sharp decline due to human activities.
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Chile's Giant Kelp Forests at Risk
A new scientific publication details surprising results from marine surveys of Patagonia’s kelp forests, comparing current conditions to data collected 50 years ago. While these vast underwater…
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 26/09/2026
Fish and Wildlife Service memo calls for change in what it means to ‘take’ an endangered species — reinterpreting the law to mean that harming or killing an endangered animal would no longer be considered illegal unless the action was specifically intended to cause harm or death.
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Trump officials move to dismantle key protection for US endangered species
Fish and Wildlife Service memo calls for change in what it means to ‘take’ an endangered species
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 24/09/2026
An escalating confrontation on Native land southwest of Tucson threatens to upend decades of uneasy cooperation between the Tohono O’odham Nation and the United States: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 24/09/2026
A peatland #restoration project is giving back some of what human society took from these ecosystems, showing that all hope for the more-than-human world was not yet lost. (3)
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Cranes Return to Ireland, Encouraged by Peatland Restoration
The success of the cranes represents an ecological and cultural rebirth for Ireland, returning a member of the extended Irish family to their rightful place on the landscape.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 24/09/2026
Crane chicks have stoked an innate Irish pride and made national news. The country has rejoiced, even if most people hadn’t known the cranes were missing in the first place. (2)
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Cranes Return to Ireland, Encouraged by Peatland Restoration
The success of the cranes represents an ecological and cultural rebirth for Ireland, returning a member of the extended Irish family to their rightful place on the landscape.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 24/09/2026
Common #cranes once inhabited Irish #peatlands in flocks of hundreds; they are now returning. The success represents an ecological and cultural rebirth for #Ireland, returning a member of the extended Irish family to their rightful place on the landscape. (1)
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Cranes Return to Ireland, Encouraged by Peatland Restoration
The success of the cranes represents an ecological and cultural rebirth for Ireland, returning a member of the extended Irish family to their rightful place on the landscape.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 23/09/2026
In the past five years, 324 #tortoises and #iguanas have been captured from the Ecuadorian islands for an international market willing to pay thousands of dollars for the archipelago’s unique species.
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Galápagos, a paradise under criminal siege
In the past five years, 324 tortoises and iguanas have been captured from the Ecuadorian islands for an international market willing to pay thousands of dollars for the archipelago’s unique species
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 21/09/2026
Indeed, we completely lack certain senses found in many other species. Unfortunately, #conservation has yet to catch up with the science of sensory biology.
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Beyond the Human Umwelt: Silent and Invisible Sensory Pollution
We must not be deaf and blind to the importance of animal senses outside of hearing and vision and, correspondingly, sensory pollution beyond noise and light.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 21/09/2026
Biologist Jakob Johann von Uexküll coined the term #Umwelt to refer to the environment as it is experienced by a given organism, via the information available to that organism’s senses. Our human Umwelten do not necessarily represent the world as other animals perceive it.
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Beyond the Human Umwelt: Silent and Invisible Sensory Pollution
We must not be deaf and blind to the importance of animal senses outside of hearing and vision and, correspondingly, sensory pollution beyond noise and light.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 21/09/2026
Aldo Leopold wrote, “The penalty of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen.” An education in #sensory #biology is the awareness that much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to humans.
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Beyond the Human Umwelt: Silent and Invisible Sensory Pollution
We must not be deaf and blind to the importance of animal senses outside of hearing and vision and, correspondingly, sensory pollution beyond noise and light.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 20/09/2026
Interior Department orders BLM officials to identify public lands for #AI data centers, while USGS publishes its own analysis of AI energy infrastructure on public lands #PublicLands
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The AI Boom Comes for America’s Public Lands
Interior Department orders BLM officials to identify public lands for AI data centers, while USGS publishes its own analysis of AI energy infrastructure on public lands.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 19/09/2026
In the two years since #dam removal on the Klamath River in California and Oregon, fall-run chinook #salmon have come back in full force, but water allotments, remaining dams, and drought conditions still pose challenges for recovery.
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20,000 Salmon Return to the Klamath—but Challenging Conditions for Recovery Remain - Inside Climate News
In the two years since dam removal on the Klamath River in California and Oregon, fall-run chinook salmon have come back in full force, but water allotments, remaining dams and drought conditions…
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 19/09/2026
New polling from the Trust for Public Land shows bipartisan support for #conservation is climbing, even as federal agencies fast-track leasing and roll back environmental review.
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Public Lands, Bipartisan as Ever
New polling from the Trust for Public Land shows bipartisan support for conservation is climbing, even as federal agencies fast-track leasing and roll back environmental review.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 18/09/2026
The temporary restraining order marked a major victory for American Prairie, which has spent more than 20 years restoring #buffalo in Montana.
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Judge Blocks Trump Admin Effort to Evict Hundreds of Bison From Public Land
The temporary restraining order marked a major victory for American Prairie, which has spent more than 20 years restoring buffalo in Montana.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 17/09/2026
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday directing the interior department to consider de-listing gray #wolves from the Endangered Species Act and to contemplate whether the agency could make it easier to authorize killing them.
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Trump order directs officials to consider stripping protections for gray wolves
Interior department given three months to decide whether wolves can be removed from endangered species list
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 15/09/2026
Nearly three decades after living 738 days in an ancient redwood, Julia Butterfly Hill sees the same resolve in activists occupying cottonwoods along the U.S.-Mexico border. #treesit
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Opinion: I spent two years living in an ancient tree to save it. Now history is repeating itself in Arizona — and Mexico
Nearly three decades after living 738 days in an ancient redwood, Julia Butterfly Hill sees the same resolve in activists occupying cottonwoods along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 14/09/2026
The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule covers 44.7 million acres of National Forest land and is currently being reexamined by the U.S. Forest Service. See what onX data reveals about these areas and participate in the public comment process: buff.ly/wpdcUo7
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Roadless Rule Area Map & Public Comment Guide | onX
Explore the Roadless Rule, see onX data on 44.7 million acres of National Forest land, and use the Roadless Rule area map to inform your public comment.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 13/09/2026
The project proves that with stubborn persistence and scientific rigor, we can successfully #rewild our most fractured landscapes. buff.ly/xoqHEQ4
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Episode 183: The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing - Beth Pratt on Reaching the Finish Line
Rewilding Earth Podcast Episode 183: The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing - Beth Pratt on Reaching the Finish Line
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 13/09/2026
From engineering sound and light baffles with more than 300,000 daily vehicles passing below to cultivating a million hyper-local seeds, the details of bringing this #crossing to life sets a new global benchmark for habitat fidelity.
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Episode 183: The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing - Beth Pratt on Reaching the Finish Line
Rewilding Earth Podcast Episode 183: The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing - Beth Pratt on Reaching the Finish Line
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 13/09/2026
A tireless champion, Beth shares the emotional reality of reaching the finish line, the enduring legacy of mountain lion P-22, and why this #wildlife bridge is far more than simple conveyance.
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Episode 183: The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing - Beth Pratt on Reaching the Finish Line
Rewilding Earth Podcast Episode 183: The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing - Beth Pratt on Reaching the Finish Line
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 13/09/2026
In this episode of the Rewilding Earth #Podcast, Beth Pratt, California regional executive director with the National Wildlife Federation & founder of The Wildlife Crossing Fund, talks with Jack about what it really takes to pull off a monumental #conservation feat in the modern-day United States.
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Episode 183: The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing - Beth Pratt on Reaching the Finish Line
Rewilding Earth Podcast Episode 183: The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing - Beth Pratt on Reaching the Finish Line
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 13/09/2026
Fourteen years in the making, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over Southern California’s ten-lane Highway 101 is finally nearing completion.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 12/09/2026
Discussed: the impacts of border wall construction on wildlife corridors & Indigenous sites, along with staffing & funding cuts at land management agencies & rollbacks of environmental protections, from Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument & Cabeza Prieta Nat'l Wildlife Refuge to Quitobaquito Springs
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LIVE from Tucson: Arizona's Public Lands and the Border Wall
Recorded live at Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre in Tucson as part of CWP’s Keep Parks Public campaign, Aaron interviews four experts about the current state of Arizona’s public lands: Matthew Nelson…
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 12/09/2026
For twenty-five years, a single rule has kept 58.5 million acres of America's wildest national forest off-limits to new roads. On June 23, 2025, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans to undo it all in the service of exploitation. Learn more: roadless.org
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Defend the Roadless Rule - Protect America's Last Wild Forests
Roadless areas safeguard clean water for 124M people, vital wildlife habitat, and outdoor recreation. Join us in protecting these irreplaceable public lands.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 11/09/2026
Roadless areas are essential to rewilding efforts to welcome home important wildlife too long missing from these landscapes, restoring ecological function and resilience. Submit your comment to oppose the rescission of the roadless rule by Sept. 21: buff.ly/B69vpSt
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Defend the Roadless Area Rule
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 10/09/2026
WENDELL BERRY: BEST OF COMPILATION
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Thank you, Wendell Berry - Orion Magazine
A remembrance
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 09/09/2026
This past week, the desert monsoon skies held towering clouds, dark with rain and lit with shafts of sunlight. My old jeep was creaking along the dirt road from Patagonia to #Lochiel in southern Arizona’s San Rafael Valley when I saw six Border Patrol vehicles massing around a spur road. #treesit
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Witness for Wild Places: Being Rewilded by the Earth
This past week, the desert monsoon skies held towering clouds, dark with rain and lit with shafts of sunlight. My old jeep was creaking along the dirt road from
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 07/09/2026
Watch closely, and spot the Rewilding Institute in the background. More on what’s covered in the episode here: A hundred pawprints on the road to wildness (Link: buff.ly/gBdDh34)
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Resolve to Solve with Miles O'Brien | Return of the Wild in Argentina | Episode 5
A former executive is bringing jaguars back to a wilderness in Argentina.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 06/09/2026
From a recreational perspective: If the Roadless Rule is rolled back, some of the places people rely on for quiet, adventure, and connection could be opened to road building and industrial logging, which would fundamentally change the recreation experience.
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Defend the Roadless Rule and Protect National Forests | Outdoor Alliance
Help us protect our backcountry recreation areas. Roadless rules defend forests, and help preserve their clean air, clean water, and local habitat.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 05/09/2026
Scientists surprised to find all but two of 12 grizzlies were dead within a year of ‘feelgood’ release, unable to sustain their high-calorie diet and inclined to approach humans.
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‘We humans are inept at taking care of baby animals’: why well-fed orphan bears die in the wild
Scientists surprised to find all but two of 12 grizzlies were dead within a year of ‘feelgood’ release, unable to sustain their high-calorie diet and inclined to approach humans
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 04/09/2026
Perhaps more than any other sustainable farming proponent, Wendell Berry influenced and strengthened the conservation movement. #tribute #WendellBerry
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An Agrarian Reformer in Doug Tompkins' Court
Wendell Berry, Kentucky farmer and writer, August 5, 1934 to August 31, 2026 Perhaps more than any other sustainable farming proponent, Wendell Berry influence
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 04/09/2026
The Interior Department will soon publish a “categorical exclusion” that will rubber stamp oil and gas development in Alaska’s remote National Petroleum Reserve.
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SCOOP: Trump Team Moves To Fast-Track Arctic Drilling Without Environmental Review
The Interior Department will soon publish a “categorical exclusion” that will rubber stamp oil and gas development in Alaska’s remote National Petroleum Reserve.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 03/09/2026
On August 18, 2026, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a proposed rule that would eliminate widely supported protections on more than 45 million acres of roadless public land throughout the country.
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Chris Wood Cautions Congress: Eliminating The Roadless Rule Would Upend 25 Years Of Balanced Public Land Management - Trout Unlimited
“The Roadless Rule strikes a common-sense balance: the rule allows forest health projects and
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 03/09/2026
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Masked CBP agents, border-wall contractors enter Tohono O'odham Nation
Tensions are escalating between the Tohono O'odham Nation and U.S. immigration authorities amid the Trump administration's push to build 30-foot-tall border-wall barriers along the Nation's southern…
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 02/09/2026
Just off Kri Island in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, meter-long dotted #sharks glide underwater — a sight conservationists say was vanishingly rare until recently.
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The ‘world’s first rewilded sharks’ are being raised by shark nannies | CNN
Conservation group ReShark is attempting to “restore balance to the ocean” with what it describes as the world’s first shark rewilding program.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 31/08/2026
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's sweeping move to block copper-nickel #mining near the Boundary Waters thrust a long-running debate back into the headlines — and onto the campaign trail.
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What to know about Walz's sweeping ban on mining near the Boundary Waters
The move puts the long-debated issue back in the spotlight ahead of the election.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 30/08/2026
The wild capture and release of a female big cat into a nature reserve is the first step towards reintroducing a population that hasn’t been seen for 70 years. buff.ly/8BXlHka
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The return of the caspian tiger: how a species feared extinct has come back to Kazakhstan
The wild capture and release of a female big cat into a nature reserve is the first step towards reintroducing a population that hasn’t been seen for 70 years
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 29/08/2026
It's officially a modest exploration proposal, but locals see it as the opening move toward an industrial mine in the headwaters of one of Montana’s great trout rivers. Take action:https://buff.ly/Ddycqcr
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Proposed Sheep Creek Rare-Earth Mine Threatens Montana's Bitterroot River and Over 1,400 Farm Families
It's officially a modest exploration proposal, but locals see it as the opening move toward an industrial mine in the headwaters of one of Montana’s great trout rivers
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 28/08/2026
This podcast busts common myths around wildfire access and timber value, explores why intact landscapes are vital for native #fish, and calls on anglers, hunters, and conservationists to submit public comments before the September 21 deadline. (4) buff.ly/CTnBr5b
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Episode 182: Millions Upon Millions of Acres on the Chopping Block — How to Save the Roadless Rule
Summary Chris Wood, president and CEO of Trout Unlimited and an original architect of the 2001 Roadless Rule, speaks with Rewilding Earth Podcast host Jack Hu
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 28/08/2026
The Roadless Rule protects more than 58 million acres of wild forests and other critical habitats; plans to rescind the rule would remove protections from 75 percent of this acreage. (3)
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 28/08/2026
With imminent threats of deregulation proposed for nearly 45 million acres of public land, Chris outlines the ecological necessity, common sense economics, and history behind protecting backcountry #watersheds. (2)
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 28/08/2026
Chris Wood, president and CEO of Trout Unlimited and an original architect of the 2001 Roadless Rule, speaks with Rewilding Earth #Podcast host Jack Humphrey about the origins of the #RoadlessRule and why rescinding it is a problem for trout and salmon.
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Rewilding Institute @rewilding.org · 24/08/2026
Researchers aggregated multiple polls and found most voters oppose the sale of public land and the rollback of environmental protections.
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Polls: Nevada voters prioritize public lands over mining, energy
A new report shows most Nevada voters oppose selling public lands and rolling back environmental protections ahead of elections.
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