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Welcome!

Mark O. Walsh, Executive Director Welcome to the home page of the Western Counties Alliance, a coalition of rural, primarily western public lands counties which have joined together to exert greater influence on federal natural resources management policies.

The Alliance aggressively supports a balanced, multiple use approach to managing the public’s lands and resources, because this approach has been proven to best serve the public interest from the national, state and local perspective.

We accomplish our mission by providing information, analysis and advice, lobbying policy makers and by helping to focus the efforts of allied groups to increase their influence on the policy process.

We have a rare opportunity in the next few years to refocus federal natural resources policy to better reflect sound science, common sense and “ground truth.”

Presently, the Alliance is focusing on these major issue areas:

  • Achieving full funding of the federal obligation to public land counties to make payments in lieu of taxes (PILT). Click here to go to the PILT resource page.
  • Reforming the Wilderness Act and educating the public, the media policy makers about why formal wilderness designation is almost invariably irresponsible land and resource management.
  • Protecting public access to public lands, especially protecting counties RS 2477 road rights-of-way.
  • Supporting ranching and rangeland rehabilitation through education, policy analysis, application of sound science to policy issues and refuting the misinformation circulated by most grazing opponents.
  • Reforming the Endangered Species Act, to bring it more in line with science, common sense and sound resource stewardship.
  • Supporting responsible and expeditious development of the public's energy resources.
  • Calling for indepth oversight for the first time since its passage of the Federal Land Policy Management Act (FLPMA).
  • Click here to read the letter to Chairman Pombo.

We invite you to join us in this fight! Sign up for our free e-newsletter by filling in the information in the boxes below. We will send you periodic updates to keep you informed of important developments and suggest things you can do to help bring greater balance to the federal natural resources policy debate.

Sincerely,

Mark O. Walsh
Executive Director
 

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