Undisturbed desert protected by DRECP is vital to us all

Let DRECP do its job In 2005, I returned home from a deployment to Iraq as an Army photojournalist. No one ever tells you that coming home is one of the hardest parts of serving. Reintegration back into civilian life can take a toll on s...

Hundreds of Colorado Veterans Urge Senator Cory Gardner to Protect Camp Hale Ahead of Memorial Day Observances

Colorado Springs, Colo. (May 25, 2018) – Just days before Memorial Day, 395 Colorado veterans signed a letter to Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) urging him to cosponsor the Continental Divide Recreation, Wilder...

Letter of Colorado Veterans supporting Continental Divide Camp Hale Protection

The Honorable Cory GardnerUnited States Senate 354 Russell Senate Office BuildingWashington, D.C. 20510  Dear Senator Gardner: As our state and nation honors the fallen during Memorial Day, we request that you support the effort to...

Members of Congress and Veterans Lead Rally on Steps of U.S. Capitol to Highlight Importance of Land and Water Conservation Fund

(Washington, DC) – Today, the Vet Voice Foundation(VVF) and U.S. Representatives Ted Lieu (CA-33) and Ruben Gallego (AZ-7) led a rally in front of the U.S. Capitol to urge Congress to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservatio...

Why the LWCF matters to veterans

Zinke is wrong, we don’t have to choose between park maintenance and conservation

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has repeatedly attempted to frame an “either/or” choice between addressing the NPS maintenance backlog and investing in the Land and Water Conservation Fund — America’s most popular and successful parks program.

VET VOICE FOUNDATION STRONGLY OPPOSES THE CADIZ WATER MINING PROJECT

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Vet Voice Foundation is vigorously opposing the Cadiz Water Mining Project, on the heels of the new peer-reviewed, published study which demonstrates that one of the largest springs in the Mojave Desert&...

Protecting public lands gives our veterans a place to go for healing

A 37-year Army veteran says he feels compelled to stand up for public lands because they are actively under attack.

Under Swirl of Controversy, Zinke Faces Ire of Veterans as He Testifies This Week

Veterans come at Interior Secretary hard, for Trump budget that zeroes out the Land and Water Conservation Fund

Zinke aims to desecrate national monuments

"What greater grief than the loss of one's native land." — Euripides While shivering in a foxhole in western Kuwait; working in some very dangerous areas in Mali and Nigeria; or riding through IED country in Afghanistan, I was...