Two more stories to work into your social calendars are below. Guidance on the WaPo story about DOI’s unredacted FOIA dump is being worked on as we speak. ICYMI, you can read that story here.

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Story #1: New York Times: Law That Saved the Bald Eagle Could Be Vastly Reworked

Link: https://nyti.ms/2LcrrXO

Facebook:

• @Secretary Zinke and the @Interior Department proposed sweeping changes to the landmark Endangered Species Act, intending to loosen protections for our most vulnerable wildlife at the behest of energy companies and developers. This is a direct assault on America’s most iconic wildlife by shredding bedrock conservation laws that protect communities and endangered species species to serve the interests of industry and campaign donors.
  
  The Endangered Species Act is our nation’s most effective law for protecting wildlife in danger of extinction. We must stand up and oppose any efforts to undermine conservation of critical species and habitats. #StopExtinction https://nyti.ms/2LcrrXO
  
  
• Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act would be huge gift to oil and gas companies looking to exploit our natural resources at the expense of critical wildlife. Iconic species like the bald eagle, grey wolf, and California Condor have been saved from extinction because of key protections in the law.
  
  Department of Interior Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist for the oil and gas industry, is leading the charge against the ESA and spearheading efforts to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. These concerted efforts, which are handouts to extractive industries, threaten to undermine hard fought protections and conservation efforts that could devastate critical wildlife populations. #StopExtinction https://nyti.ms/2LcrrXO

Twitter:

• Ex-lobbyist @DOIDepSec David Bernhardt is leading the charge at @Interior to strip the ESA of key protections and open Arctic Wildlife Refuge to oil & gas drilling. We must fight back to #stopextinction. https://nyti.ms/2LcrrXO
• #SwampMonster Alert: Ex-lobbyist @DOIDepSec David Bernhardt is targeting the ESA, to strip protections for countless threatened & endangered species. His proposals would pave the way for energy companies to develop on critical habitat. #stopextinction https://nyti.ms/2LcrrXO
• .@realDonaldTrump & @SecretaryZinke are waging a direct assault on America’s most iconic wildlife by shredding bedrock #conservation laws that protect communities & endangered species to serve the interests of industry and campaign donors. #StopExtinction https://nyti.ms/2LcrrXO
• Once again, @SecretaryZinke is doing the bidding of energy companies and developers, now proposing to shred the Endangered Species Act. The landmark 1973 law has been critical to environmental #conservation efforts for decades. #stopextinction https://nyti.ms/2LcrrXO
• The landmark 1973 Endangered Species Act saved the bald eagle from extinction. But now @realDonaldTrump, @SecretaryZinke and #Congress want to undermine the law to allow energy companies & developers to build on critical habitats. #stopextinction https://nyti.ms/2LcrrXO

Story #2: Ryan Zinke’s War on the Interior via Rolling Stone

Link: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ryan-zinke-trump-war-on-department-of-interior-700218/

Twitter:

• Read about @SecretaryZinke ‘s war on the Interior: #InvestigateZinke https://rol.st/2uX2uER
• “@SecretaryZinke is there for the photo ops and to carry out Trump’s agenda. There’s a Heritage Foundation wish list, and he’s ticking through it without any understanding of how it works.” Via @markbinelli & @RollingStone https://rol.st/2uX2uER
• .@SecretaryZinke’s political appointees are #swampy: @DOIDepSec, previously an oil-and-gas-industry lobbyist; Daniel Jorjani, previously an adviser to Charles Koch; Todd Wynn, worked for Koch Industries-backed think tanks.#InvestigateZinke https://rol.st/2uX2uER
• “counted among the DOI’s political nominees: 14 former lobbyists, 14 Trump campaign workers, 34 extractive-industry veterans and no one from the outdoor-recreation industry.” #InvestigateZinke More on the “swampiness” at @Interior via https://rol.st/2uX2uER

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Hannah Ledford

Director, Americans for Public Lands

(402) 304-0287

hledford@partnershipproject.org