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Deserts and
Grasslands > Bitter Lake
Bitter Lake National Wildlife
Refuge
The Bitter Lakes refuge is a
unique inland oasis. Located where the Chihuahuan Desert
and Southern Plains meet, it is a biodiversity hotspot
in the arid southwest. Forest Guardians has been working
over the past several years, culminating in a series of
actions in September, 2005, to safeguard this fragile
and threatened treasure.
The Interior Board of Land
Appeals ruled on September 22, 2005 that the U.S. Bureau
of Land Management (BLM) should reconsider its drilling
plan adjacent to Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge
near Roswell in light of the recent listing of three
unique springsnails and a freshwater shrimp under the
Endangered Species Act. Three of the species are found
only on Bitter Lakes and nowhere else in the world.
Forest Guardians originally brought its case against the
drilling plan over two years ago.
For specific questions about our efforts to protect deserts and
grassland,
contact Lauren McCain,
desert and grasslands coordinator.
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