Alabama’s public lands, and the decisions deciding them.
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Challenge the Blanket Emergency Order on 13 Million Southern Forest Acres
The Forest Service is issuing a Finding of No Significant Impact covering over 13 million acres across 13 states and Puerto Rico while its own Cultural and Heritage analysis admits that effects on historic properties cannot be determined at the programmatic level.
Support updated protections for ACE Basin, Elkhorn Slough, and Weeks Bay reserves
Public comments now shape how three coastal estuarine reserves are managed and bounded for years ahead.
Stop the unlawful FONSI for utility projects across 13 million Southern Region acres
The agency is asking the public to accept a FONSI covering 1,500-plus active authorizations on 9,580 miles of national forest land while admitting it has not completed ESA or NHPA compliance.
Nationwide decisions that include Alabama
Stop reopening Pacific Remote Islands Monument waters to commercial fishing
NMFS would lift the commercial fishing ban in protected waters around Johnston Atoll, Wake Island, and Jarvis Island.
Stop opening 14.10 square nautical miles of protected coral habitat to trawling
NOAA proposes reopening 14.10 square nautical miles of the Oculina Bank Habitat Area of Particular Concern to rock shrimp trawling, on the same boundary it disapproved in 2022 for failing to protect essential fish habitat and minimize bycatch.
Stop Capling SR29 Mine from filling 5.15 acres of freshwater wetlands
A commercial excavation mine would permanently destroy 5.15 acres of freshwater herbaceous wetlands along the SR 29 corridor.
Stop the Grand Island plan before NEPA analysis is done
The Forest Service is finalizing a comprehensive multi-zone management strategy affecting over 20,000 annual visitors without identifying any NEPA pathway, environmental analysis, or formal scoping process.
Comment now on Amache's long-term plan before December 3
The agency is asking the public to choose between two development concepts for a site that incarcerated more than 10,000 Japanese Americans, without providing any environmental analysis, archeological survey results, or consultation record to support either choice.
Shape the next management plan for Gray's Reef Sanctuary
NOAA is rewriting the rules for Gray's Reef and needs public input now.
Comment now on the proposed 37,714-acre Green Bay Reserve designation
NOAA is proposing to designate a reserve of approximately 37,714 acres across three components of the Green Bay estuary while deferring all project-level environmental review to future, unspecified processes.
Finalize the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad GMP without required analysis
The plan proposes to manage a park receiving upward of 100,000 visitors per year across an 11,750-acre federal boundary without completing the statutory carrying capacity analysis or a NEPA alternatives comparison.
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