CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY BECAUSE LIFE IS GOOD.

2003 Annual Report 2003 Annual Report

he year 2003 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, the most powerful law in the world for protecting Twildlife. To celebrate this milestone the Center launched a major national research program to examine the successes and failures of endangered species conservation efforts over the past three decades. Our initial findings demonstrate that when the Act is fully implemented, it is remarkably effective at saving species (see page 10). But when it is ignored or undermined, extinction is often the result. Also in 2003 we established the Center for Biological Diversity Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Denver (see page 17). The Center’s environmental law clinic was recently ranked 12th in the

photo by Thomas Veneklasen nation by U.S. News and World Report. Through this partnership with the University we are educating a new generation of environmental lawyers and providing free legal services to non-profit activist groups. Despite the broadly defensive stance the Center has had to take this year to stave off the myriad assaults of the Bush Administration— not only on wildlife and wilderness but also on protections for human health, clean air, and clean water—we rose above the fray with a number of stand-out victories. In the Sequoia National Forest we stopped a timber sale and set a precedent that will help erode Bush’s attack on old-growth forests across the country; in Puget Sound, killer whales got a new lease on life when a federal judge decided in our favor and directed the Administration to rethink their decision to let the whales go extinct. The Center won the designation of 13.6 million acres of critical habitat this year—for the sake of species like the Mexican spotted owl, Blackburn’s sphinx moth, and Santa Ana sucker—and halted a massive, 15-million-square-foot industrial facility that would have degraded and polluted the grasslands of the southern San Joaquin Valley. Thanks to the steadfast support and passion of our members and staff, it has been an exceptional year for the Center. And as we keep fighting to save wild animals, plants and lands from the depredations of the Bush Administration and its industry allies, I thank you for the gift of your conviction.

Kierán Suckling Executive Director

WWW.BIOLOGICALDIVERSITY.ORG 1 San Pedro River Photo by Robin Silver Rivers Other achievements included: he Center has long focused on ■ Compelling the U.S. Fish and Wildlife the defense and restoration of Yellow-billed cuckoo Photo by Ron Austing Service to protect habitat for the endangered Trivers, both for their own sake Santa Ana sucker in the Los Angeles basin and for the vast array of aquatic, roundtail chub, streamside and forest species that headwater chub, four ■ Helping build a coalition for river otter depend on them. This year we won species of Pacific lamprey, reintroduction in New Mexico a protection order for thousands and Montana fluvial arctic ■ of stream miles stretching grayling—all of which are in Winning a court order to protect rivers and streamside habitat for the southwestern from southern California to drastic decline and play a critical Puget Sound and inland to willow flycatcher in California, Arizona and role in river ecosystems. As a direct New Mexico Idaho—an order that will result of our work to protect the help preserve 20 salmon and highly imperiled Kootenai River white steelhead trout species. We convinced sturgeon in Montana, the U.S. Army the U.S. Forest Service to protect 57 Corps of Engineers was compelled rivers totaling 750 miles on all six of to change its operation of Libby Arizona’s national forests, and we won Dam—the primary threat to the protection of the North Fork Eel River sturgeon—to allow more natural river in California’s Six Rivers National flows. And we won a key victory Forest, home of endangered trout committing the National Marine and an ancient Native American site. Fisheries Service to consider extending In addition, the Center filed protection of southern steelhead petitions and suits to gain trout upstream of dams. Endangered Species status for the Mexican garter snake,

BACKGROUND: Colorado River, Grand Canyon Mexican garter snake Photo by Michelle Harrington Photo by Phil Rosen

2 3 Forests

orests throughout the western In the Sequoia National Forest, United States are being we stopped a major timber sale that Fclearcut and fragmented until would have cut down 1.6 million no true wilderness remains. In board feet, including large and old- 2003, the Center fought hard growth trees. And on the Eldorado against the Bush administration’s National Forest, in vital spotted owl so-called “Healthy Forest territory, we brought a halt to a Initiative,” which rolls back forest harmful 1,700-acre timber sale. protections and stops citizens from Bringing relief to besieged forests raising their voices in defense of of old-growth ponderosa pine, the Clearcutting of old growth. Center achieved Sequoia trees Photos courtesy of Sequoia Dressed up as a new protections ForestKeeper program to thin for eight million Other achievements included: small trees for acres in Arizona the prevention and New Mexico, ■ Defeating construction of a destructive telescope system of wildfires, the where more in Arizona’s Coronado National Forest Bush plan in scientific timber ■ Suspending livestock grazing on 5,700 acres in the Los fact abolishes management will Padres National Forest the public’s save wild forests right to for goshawks, ■ Challenging six timber sales in southeastern Alaska’s appeal timber sales the U.S. songbirds and black bears. We also Tongass, the country’s largest and wildest national forest Forest Service chooses to clas- won a court order directing the U.S. sify as thinning projects in Fish and Wildlife Service to finalize a ■ Appealing a massive eight-million-board-feet timber order to increase logging of new critical habitat proposal for the sale on 4,350 acres in the large trees and old-growth Mexican spotted owl in these forests. Lincoln National Forest in forests. Along with our And all across the west we fought New Mexico allies, the Center filed suit exploitative oil and mineral against the U.S. Forest extraction in national forests, Service to prevent radical from Alaska’s stunning Chugach to overhauls of the system southern California’s Los Padres and under the Bush policy. San Bernardino.

above: King Salmon Bay, Admiralty Island, Alaska Photo by John Schoen

Giant Sequoia Photos courtesy of Sequoia ForestKeeper, www.sequoiaforestkeeper.org

opposite page: Sitka black-tailed deer, 4 Tongass National Forest, Alaska 5 Photo by John Schoen Flat-tailed horned lizard Photo coutesy of Deserts BonTerra Consulting 2003

he Sonoran desert is one of In the the lushest and most diverse in Mohave Tthe world. Southern California’s desert, which is Sonoran biome is home to the under severe Algodones Dunes, a surreal pressure from moonscape that boasts unchecked more than 160 desert- development, adapted species and water diversion and the largest dune system cattle grazing, the in the United States. Center also won Unfortunately, savage use a series of by off-road vehicle drivers crucial victories. who roar into the Dunes on We kept livestock off weekends—sometimes as 248,000 acres for the protection many as 240,000 at a of the endangered desert tortoise; time—is tearing up the won an early positive response to Dunes’ fragile wildlife. our petition to protect the desert Other achievements included: This year the Center ■ defended a hard-won closure of Challenging a Bush Administration decision parts of the Dunes against an industry to deny endangered species protection for the flat-tailed horned lizard lawsuit; we also won a key victory that maintains a ban on off-road ■ Filing suit to protest the delay of protection vehicles across almost 50,000 for the sand dune lizard, found in New spectacular acres. The Center won Mexico and Texas an astounding 52,780 acres of proposed habitat protection for the ■ Filing a petition for the Andrews dune threatened Peirson’s milk-vetch and scarab beetle, a species known only in the blocked bad science by the U.S. Fish cymopterus, a critically imperiled plant Algodones Dunes and northeast Baja California and Wildlife Service that would have found only in the West Mohave, and hurt the milk-vetch and other rare an order keeping key areas closed plants and animals in the Dunes. for wildlife; and negotiated the protection of Birch and Furnace Creeks in the White Mountains against off-road vehicle damage.

above: Peirson's milk-vetch Scarab beetle Algodones Dunes 6 Photo by Jim Dice Photo by Andrew Harvey Photo by Andrew Harvey 7 Oceans

s a torrent of ecological American military plans to build a devastation sweeps the seas, heliport on a coral reef, and filed suit Athe Center’s work embraces against the Department of Defense an ever-growing portion of our to stop the runway and protect the ocean planet. Working as far north dugong’s last habitat. In Berlin, as the Bering Sea and as far south as Center staff presented research on Guam, from Asia to the Atlantic, we the effects of habitat degradation have won endan- on whales at the gered status for Scientific Committee declining marine of the International mammals, birds, Whaling Commission, and fish; closed prompting a shift in down poorly run the Commission's focus commercial fish- from whaling to eries; and gained a broader conserva- Piping plover inset: Pribilof habitat protections tion agenda. Photo by Sidney Maddock Islands, Bering Sea across millions of On the home Photo courtesy of NMFS acres of ocean. front, a Center case garnered a In the international arena, we major victory for Puget Sound’s killer Other achievements included: went to Japan to work with whales—and set a precedent that ■ Japanese environmental could help species around the Winning a “depleted” designation under the Marine Mammal Protection Act for a organizations to protect country—when a federal judge ruled pod of killer whales in Alaska’s Prince that the Bush Administration had William Sound purposefully ignored its own science in refusing to protect the whales ■ Reaching an agreement with under the Endangered Species Act. the U.S. Fish and Wildlife We won a decision directing the Service to grant endangered National Marine Fisheries Service to status to the Palau dugong assess the impacts of California’s longline swordfishery on endangered ■ Conducting a major inventory sea turtles, and also won temporary and biodiversity assessment of the the last closure and new management for ecosystems and species of the 50 Okinawa Hawaiian longline fisheries. And Bering Sea and Puget Sound dugongs—peaceful, one of our petitions brought a slow-moving sea proposal to bring endangered mammals closely related species protection to sea otters in to manatees—which Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. are threatened by

Anenome Photo coutesy of NOAA Sea rod 8 Photo coutesy of NOAA 9 Endangered Species

n late 1972, a Mississippi federal The Endangered Species Act has fox in the Channel Islands. We also Other achievements judge ruled that one of proven remarkably effective. Of pushed the listing process forward Ithe greatest financial the 108 species that went for the Dakota skipper butterfly in the included: boondoggles in America’s extinct in the 20 midwest, the Miami history, the Tennessee-Tombigbee years following its blue butterfly in ■ Helping defeat a bill in the Waterway, could be built despite creation, only Florida, killer whales New Mexico state legislature the fact that it would destroy an in Puget Sound, that would have stripped entire ecosystem. Driving species to shorebirds in Alaska, protections from the Mexican extinction, the court and a host of gray wolf succinctly stated, is not species threatened ■ illegal. Just 18 months by U.S. actions in Winning an increase in federal later the Endangered Africa, Asia, and Europe. funding for the listing of Species Act was signed into endangered species over the law. It not only made willful objections of the Bush extinction illegal, it forever administration changed the landscape of American ■ Hosting a conference of ESA conservation. No project on the scale litigators and communications of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway 2000 experts to develop national has since been approved, and it is percent were strategies for the protection of unlikely that one ever will be; the legal on the endangered imperiled species strength and moral species list. And bureaucratic delays clarity of the Act had ensured that by the time these has made such were placed under the jurisdiction atrocities of the Act, there was virtually no a thing chance of saving them. of the Species that were never listed past. and those whose listing was delayed were over 3,200 times more likely to become extinct than protected species. As the country’s leading advocate for imperiled plants and animals the Center has won ESA listings for 334 species, including 93 percent of all listings under the Bush Administration. In 2003 this included the tiny Columbia basin pygmy rabbit in Washington, the Sonoma county tiger salamander in California, and a Mexican gray wolf pair federal proposal to protect the island Photo by Val Halstead, ©Wolf Haven International

The Center is working to protect the habitat of the Hine’s emerald dragonfly Baker's larkspur Photo by Paul Burton 10 Photo by Doreen Smith 11 Endangered Habitat

nce a species is granted publicized a comprehensive study of “nonsensical” because it Won Federal Proposal for threatened or endangered U.S. Fish and Wildlife reports—reports excluded 90 percent of Mexican Spotted Owl Ostatus, the greatest danger whose release had been curiously the beleaguered owl’s Critical Habitat Designations in 2003 to its continued survival is usually delayed. The study shows that the habitat. Under court New Mexico: 4.6 million acres habitat loss. The Endangered Species government’s own science proves order, the government Utah: 3.3 million acres Act allows for the legal protection of critical habitat works—contradicting had to fall back on the Arizona: 4.9 million acres vast swaths of wilderness to provide the Administration’s claims that the original figure of 13.5 Colorado: 569,000 acres habitat that is deemed critical for the Endangered Species Act is “broken.” million acres. Total acreage: 13.5 million acres species’ survival. This “critical habitat” It is the only administration in Developers, loggers, history that has failed and ranchers are taking CRITICAL HABITAT DESIGNATIONS to designate a single their cue from the Bush administra- the southwestern willow flycatcher, WON IN 2003 critical habitat area tion, which they know will help them the California red-legged frog, and except under court to raid public lands by failing to the Alameda whipsnake, for Species State Acres order. Claiming a lack defend critical habitat in court, and instance—to prevent backdoor deals Kauai Cave Wolf Spider HI 272 filing myriad lawsuits to strike down between the administration and Blackburn’s Sphinx Moth HI 55,451 critical habitat areas across the western industry from robbing species of their Kauai Cave Amphipod HI 272 U.S. The Center has intervened in habitat protections for good. Rhadine exilis ground beetle TX 644 Rhadine infernalis ground beetle TX 686 many of these suits—on behalf of Veni's Cave Spider TX 85 Helotes Mold Beetle TX 164 Robber Baron Cave Spider TX 57 Other achievements included: Madla's Cave Spider TX 201 Robber Baron Cave Harvest TX 57 Baker’s Larkspur CA 1,828 ■ Winning a commitment from the U.S. Fish Yellow Larkspur CA 2,525 and Wildlife Service for critical habitat and Scotts Valley polygonum CA 287 a recovery plan for the Puerto Rican rock Keck Checker-mallow CA 1,085 Coqui guajon (Puerto Rican rock frog) frog, or “coqui” Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse CO, WY 31,222 Photo coutesy of Proyecto Coqui Peirson's Milk-Vetch CA 52,780 ■ San Diego Fairy Shrimp CA 6,098 of funds prevents it Negotiating a settlement for critical habitat for the Laguna Mountains skipper Mexican spotted owl AZ, NM, from doing its job, CO, UT 13,470,000 Bush’s Fish and ■ Compelling the U.S. Fish and Total final and proposed designations: Wildlife Service then Wildlife Service to map out and 13,623,714 acres turns around and protect critical habitat areas for purposefully requests the endangered Santa Barbara is vital to the Act’s effectiveness in a small budget for itself from tiger salamander saving rare animals and plants from Congress—despite the fact that going extinct. Congress is willing to budget Yet the Bush Administration has far more. In one case, the launched a full-scale attack on Administration reduced a Clinton-era critical habitat, claiming it is of habitat protection for the Mexican no value and can even harm spotted owl by a staggering nine endangered species. In 2003, to million acres. When the Center combat this insidious misinformation protested, a federal judge struck Southwestern willow flycatcher campaign, the Center released and down the Bush designation as Photo by Suzanne Langridge, USGS 12 13 Ecosystem Assessments

o set priorities for an effective program to save endangered species, it is crucial to know what species are in the most urgent peril, where they live, and what they need to survive. With the support of the Russell Family Fund, the Nevada T Winnemucca Nevada, the fastest-growing state in the nation, Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, the Campaign for American Wilderness, the Elko Battle Mountain is home to a number of desert-adapted species LaSalle Adams Foundation, and the Oak Foundation, the Center has undertaken an that exist nowhere else—many of which are now ambitious scientific effort to quantify biodiversity across the United States as a basis for in direct competition with cities like Las Vegas future action. In 2003 we initiated assessments of biodiversity in four key regions. Reno Ely and Reno that are increasingly demanding vast Carson City amounts of water. Using Geographic Information Systems technology, the Center has identified The Bering Sea Tonopah more than 400 species vulnerable to extinction Our two-year study of the state of in Nevada. Information on species observations biodiversity in the Bering Sea has just begun. and habitat requirements is being used to Occurrence Density of identify areas where landscape-level protections This two-million-square-kilometer sea between Vulnerable Species in Nevada Occurrence Density are needed and feasible. western Alaska and eastern Siberia supports Las Vegas High exceptional wildlife diversity, including the largest

multinational cluster of seabirds in the world. Low Humpback whale Forty-three percent of all American breeding Source: Nevada Natural Heritage Database Photo coutesy of NOAA seabirds can be found in the region, which is also home to bowhead whales, sperm whales, humpback whales, gray whales, orcas, Steller sea lions, walruses, spectacled eiders, auklets, salmon, sea otters and king crab. Arizona The Center’s ongoing research in Arizona is aimed at identifying the successes and shortcomings of efforts to manage the state’s imperiled species. We are Puget Sound investigating the 67 plant and animal species in The Center’s preliminary results have identified 7,322 Arizona that are federally listed as candidate, species native to the Puget Sound basin, of which at threatened, or endangered by compiling data on least 17 percent (1,228) are declining or imperiled. populations and management efforts; collaborating At least 22 species are known or suspected to be with wildlife and land management agencies, extinct or extirpated from the Basin. Although imperiled scientists, and other conservation organizations; and species occur in a broad range of providing comprehensive analyses of the data habitat, seven habitat types stand out and management for the number of imperiled species results. We will they harbor, including old-growth use our findings forests, prairies and grasslands, to recommend coastal environments, marine specific changes environments, rivers and streams, in the way species wetlands, and alpine meadows. and their habitat Threats to species and their habitat are managed. are increasing—highlighting the need for greater protection of key Puget Sound habitat and the species

that depend on them. Apache trout restoration

Water howellia Photo by Kristi Dubois

Sharp-shinned hawk banding 14 to study demographics 15 The Center Opens Urban Sprawl Environmental Law Clinic

s cities and agricultural lands its western counterpart would n 2003 the Center established an pay for it themselves. Under Center sprawl unchecked they destroy together have been twice the size of environmental law clinic at the management the clinic’s students Avital habitat, drive species to downtown Bakersfield, California, in IUniversity of Denver College of have already tackled cases aimed at extinction, create pollution, and an area that is already the second Law. This new Center for Biological protecting jaguars, white- and black- contribute to the social disintegration most ozone-polluted county in the Diversity Environmental Law Clinic tailed prairie dogs, sperm whales, Rio of communities, reducing human country. For the average adult male offers law students the opportunity to Grande cutthroat trout, and Atlantic quality of life. The Center is working in the area, the cancer risk from take on real environmental cases in white marlin, among many others. federal court, handling litigation Both the Center and the University to curb the effects of urban sprawl diesel exhaust alone is 510 times under a range of statutes including the are excited about the new partnership, on wildlife and wilderness by ensuring greater than what the Environmental Endangered Species Act, the National which gives us an efficient and powerful the protection of species and their habitats Protection Agency considers acceptable. Environmental Policy Act, the National way to train the next generation of under a host of environmental laws. The Center played a strong role Forest Management Act and others. public interest lawyers while getting in shelving plans for a Students research cases, draft legal vital work done to save species and sweeping new city on documents, file complaints and wild lands. The University of Denver the border of Joshua interview clients. clinic is the Center’s first, but it may Tree National Park; The clinic provides pro bono legal well become a model for other Center negotiated scaled-back services to clients who can’t afford to clinics in the future. development on private land in the City of San Diego to protect vernal pools and the rare species they support; convinced the California Coastal Commission to limit development in northern San Diego County; and convinced developers to preserve an important wildlife In 2003, along with our allies, corridor for one of the largest devel- the Center halted a massive 1,109- opments in the city of Calimesa, acre, 15-million-square-foot Kern California, allowing animals to travel County diesel truck and industrial between two new state parks. We also facility known as Tejon Industrial are opposing developments in Complex–East, a monstrosity planned Palm Springs, California; La Osa for the grasslands of the southern Ranch, Arizona; Pima County, San Joaquin Valley. If permitted to Arizona; and on the Miramar Marine go forward, the eastern complex and Corps Air Station in San Diego. The Center for Biological Diversity Environmental Law Clinic’s building was the first in the country to conform to the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environment Design certification system. Some of the facility’s green features include an above: Santa Clara River sprawl energy conservation system that uses 40 percent less energy than a comparable Photo by Andrew Harvey conventional building; building materials with a high percentage of post-consumer recycled components; infrared sensors on faucets and other water-efficient fixtures that can reduce water use by as much as 39 percent; and recharging stations for electric vehicles.

16 Photo courtesy of Denver University Law School 17 spotlight on Membership Center Staff

en years ago, message that preserving biodiversity Curt Bradley, Kassie Siegel, the Center’s is fundamental to human life. And Geographic Staff Attorney, Tdues-paying they’ve helped influence the way Information has been with the members numbered federal agencies, legislators, and Systems Specialist, Center since 1998. fewer than 50. other decision-makers do business. handles all the Working out of We were a fledging As our membership department Center’s cartography, our Idyllwild office, making maps of Kassie develops organization, just four years old, and grows too, and we reach out to endangered species and litigates cases many of those first members were more and more people across the Curt Bradley Kassie Siegel GIS Specialist locations and key Staff Attorney in both federal loyal friends, family, and people with country, we’re nearing the 10,000- habitat. Curt received and state court whom we’d made face-to-face member mark. We’re thrilled with a 2003 ESRI Special Achievement and coordinates other projects for the connections in communities not far the growth those numbers represent: Award for outstanding work with GIS protection of biological diversity. She from our Southwestern headquarters. the expansion of Center programs to technology—an award given each year was instrumental in winning our recent A few years later, our membership encompass plants, animals, and wild to organizations that have made important lawsuit to stop the massive Tejon Ranch burgeoned into the thousands— landscapes from coast to coast and contributions to the global community Industrial Complex development in San making us a force to reckon with. halfway round the world. Our members using GIS. Curt’s work for the Center Joaquin Valley, California (see Urban There’s strength in numbers, but it’s have helped lend the Center the was chosen from more than 100,000 Sprawl). In trial, Kassie’s courtroom the education, civic participation, powerful voice we now have in the organizations worldwide that use GIS in presentation immediately won rulings in and dedication of our members that struggle to save endangered species business, government, and academics. our favor on eight issues in the case. sets us apart. Through letter-writing and wilderness. His maps have been featured in The campaigns, community organizing, —Julie Miller New York Times, Backpacker magazine, Brent Plater, and various scientific journals, and this Staff Attorney, and our vast alert network, our Membership Director May one was used to defend the works out of the members have amplified the Center’s Endangered Species Act on the floor of Center’s Berkeley the U.S. House of Representatives. office and is a graduate of Shane Jimerfield, Berkeley’s Boalt 10-year Membership Growth Information Systems Hall School of “ Brent Plater The Center for Administrator, has Staff Attorney Law and Harvard’s Biological Diversity been with the Center Kennedy School 10000 is the only group since 1995 and has of Government. Brent has authored that is brave and served variously as endangered species petitions and 8000 savvy enough to our deputy director worked on policy reforms for a range of turn small donations and grazing program wildlife and habitat issues. He has taken Shane Jimerfield coordinator. Our the lead in a wide array of campaigns to 6000 into sweeping legal Information Systems Administrator decisions that resident jack-of-all- protect marine species, including the trades technical expert, Shane is in killer whale, the Northern right whale, 4000 protect the land charge of the Center’s computer systems the bowhead whale, and the North from exploitation and handles design and management American green sturgeon. and development. ” 2000 of our web site. Shane brings a long —Krista & Alan Binnie, history of environmental activism to 0 Members since 1997 the Center and has a deep commitment 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 19992000 200120022003 to wilderness.

18 19 Thank You Supporters Center for Biological Diversity Staff Josephine Huppert Robert Galvin Victoria M. Seidman Green Fire Bookshop Statement of Activity Orca Robert A. Johnston Paul & Mickie Gelsinger Ronald Sell, M.D. Grey Dog Trading Company Kim Beck Charles Kerr Eve & Robert Gill Carol Sessler Jolta Java for Year Ended 12/31/03* Audubon Society of Monica Bond Portland Michael Kopp Sheryl Gillespie Susan Sferra Knapp Shack Jim & Peggy Alexander Paul Krehbiel Thomas Gross Linda C. Sheppard Magpie's Gourmet Pizza Corrie Bosman Jeff & Carol Augustine, Susan Loesser Lana Guziewicz Leo J. Sim Nash & Nash, Inc. Mazatzal Tree Farm Andrew Luk Chelsea & Ryan Gwyther Peter Sinclaire Native Seeds/SEARCH Curt Bradley Derry Moritz & Alan Harper & Carol Baird Howard & Lettie Siu, Native West Press Support and Revenue Mark & Cheryl Balitzer Robin Cooley Jack Bartley Charles Shepard Donald Helfrich Save Our Danville Creeks Nevada Outdoor Jack Bath Ned Mudd, Jr. James & Connie Hickman Janet Slate Recreation Association Grants and Donations Brendan Cummings Kate Bernheimer & Anupam Narayan & Mr. Lynn & Richard Smith New Harvest Organics Brent Hendricks Judith Sugg Mrs. Nancy Higbee Douglas Smith, M.D. Obsidian Gallery Grants $1,494,625 Keri Dixon Krista & Alan Binnie Richard Olson Suzanne Higgins John Sperling Providence Institute Peter Galvin Helen Bourne Peter & Jean Ossorio Sidney & Marsha Hirsh Jerome Stefferud Reader's Oasis Membership and donations 466,845 Laurie Brown & Thomas Paul Dennis Holz David Steichen Roaring Forge Total public support 1,961,470 Noah Greenwald Ken Sarachan Dale Pogorelski Francoise Huang Jack & Marj Stewart Southwest Consolidated Margory & Dick Brown Arian Pregenzer C. Ron & Anne Hummel Gary & Teresita Strickland Sportsmen Chelsea Reiff Gwyther Steven Chambers Marianne Pyott & Dave Ehle Kenneth C. Jackimczyk, M.D. Tom Szentgyorgyi Time Market Michelle Harrington Elizabeth M. Cheatham Barbara Radwan-Kuzelewski Garrett Jackson Dr. Donald A. Thomson Wild Oats Revenue Frederic Conte & Joe Durnell Kent Jacobs & Cynthia Wicker Donald Kurt Thomson Legal Returns 992,354 Meredith Hartwell Sky Crosby Christopher Reith Art Janssen, M.D. Don Tidwell Foundation Eric Daultrey Memorial Regina & Hugh Rodgers Steve Johnson David Tiers Contracts and workshops 15,470 David Hogan Fund Greg & Alice Seymour Thomas R. Johnson Steven Tracy Supporters Shane Jimerfield Everett & Dare DeLano Sunil & Sadna Shenoy Denver Johnston Richard Urlich Alaska Conservation Miscellaneous 4,361 John Faust & Paul Sobel Suzanne Jones & Michael & Janet Valder Foundation Investment income 9,610 Sidney Maddock Tricia Gerrodette Jennifer Speers Robert Elia Michael J. 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Okinawa

1. Won ESA protections for four subspecies of Channel 16. Advocated for ESA protections for Dakota skipper butterfly. Island fox. 17. Advocated for ESA protections for Yellowstone cutthroat trout. 2. Protected 5,700 acres in the Los Padres National Forest from livestock grazing. 18. Advocated for ESA protections for southern Idaho ground squirrels.

3. Stopped a massive diesel truck and industrial facility. 19. Compelled agencies to modify flows from Libby Dam to help Kootenai River white sturgeon. 4. Halted logging of old-growth trees in the Sequoia National Forest. 20. Won ESA protections for Colombia Basin pygmy rabbits.

5. Challenged the use of pesticides in California red- 21. Advocated for ESA protections for the declining southern resident legged frog critical habitat. killer whale population.

6. Advocated for ESA protection for Tahoe yellow cress. 22. Worked to protect the Okinawa dugong from U.S. military activities. las oA Gu 7. Protected steelhead trout from the impacts of livestock 23. Secured critical habitat protection for Puerto Rican rock frogs. grazing on the Eel River. 24. Challenged six timber sales in the Tongass National Forest. 8. Protected sea turtles from commercial longline fishing. 25. Worked to protect the AT1 pod of killer whales in Prince William 9. Mapped habitat of threatened species in Nevada. Sound under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

10. Spearheaded the Arizona Public Lands Grazing 26. Worked to protect the Southwestern Alaska/Aleutian Islands Buyout Campaign. sea otter population.

11. Defended the Algodones Dunes from ORV abuse. 27. Won a temporary closure and new management plan for Hawaii longline fisheries to protect false killer whales. 12. Stopped the Renzi Rider that would harm the San Pedro River. 28. Continued work to protect piping plovers and sea turtles on Southeastern U.S. beaches. 13. Fought the Rio Penasco II timber sale on the Lincoln National Forest. Designated and proposed critical habitat won in 2003. 14. Advocated for ESA protections for declining Rio Grande cutthroat trout. AZ & NM national forests: secure greater protections for old-growth forests and rivers. 15. Advocated for ESA protections for Hine’s emerald dragonfly. US military lands: fought pentagon exemptions from environmental laws. Advocated for Pacific fishers in the Sierra Nevada.

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