Wilderness compromises don't please everyone

“When you’re willing to compromise your principles you’ve given up. You abandon them. When you compromise nature, nature gets compromised.”  -Conservation Pioneer Martin Litton who died on Nov. 30, 2014

While the Secretary of the Interior and groups like TU and TRCP held their noses and applauded compromises on wilderness bills and other public lands initiatives attached to the National Defense Authorization Act, some groups say the deals went too far.

Greenpeace, WildEarth Guardians, Center for Biological Diversity, the Western Watersheds Project and a handful of Montana-based groups sent a letter to senators Monday urging them to remove the natural resources related provisions from the defense act.

Calling the public lands package a "stealth" provision driven by provincial political considerations, the groups say the bills will result in logging, mining and grazing in exchange for modest wilderness protections.

LINK (via:The Spokesman Review)

The top 5 offensive provisions of the public lands rider according to the Montana Environmental Information Center.