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Energy Program, Guardians aims to combat global climate change to protect the American <br />West's wildlife, wild places, and wild rivers. Guardians works for clean energy solutions that can <br />help our society shift away from the use of fossil fuels in order to safeguard our climate, our <br />clean air, and our communities. <br />B. High Country Conservation Advocates <br />HCCA is a non-profit conservation organization headquartered in Crested Butte, <br />Colorado. Founded in 1977 as High Country Citizens' Alliance to keep Mount Emmons <br />molybdenum mine -free, the group's work now addresses other issues that affect Gunnison <br />County's clean air, clean water, public lands, and healthy wildlife. HCCA has approximately <br />1,000 members who live, recreate, and enjoy the rural and wild character of Gunnison County <br />and its public lands. HCCA is an active participant in public lands management in Gunnison <br />County, including the lands at issue in this case. <br />C. Sierra Club <br />Sierra Club is America's largest grassroots environmental organization, with <br />approximately 800,000 members nationwide, including more than 23,000 members in Colorado. <br />The Sierra Club is dedicated to exploring, enjoying, and protecting the wild places of the Earth; <br />to practicing and promoting the responsible use of the Earth's resources and ecosystems; to <br />educating and enlisting humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human <br />environment; and to using all lawful means to carry out these objectives. <br />D. Center for Biological Diversity <br />Center for Biological Diversity is a non-profit environmental organization with over <br />74,000 active members, many of whom live and recreate in western Colorado. The Center is <br />headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, with offices in a number of states and Mexico. The Center <br />uses science, policy, and law to advocate for the conservation and recovery of species on the <br />brink of extinction and the habitats they need to survive. The Center has and continues to <br />actively advocate for increased protections for species and their habitats in Colorado. <br />E. Wilderness Workshop <br />Wilderness Workshop is a non-profit organization engaged in research, education, legal <br />advocacy and grassroots organizing to protect the ecological integrity of local public lands. <br />Wilderness Workshop is based in Carbondale, Colorado and has approximately 800 members. <br />Wilderness Workshop not only defends pristine public lands from new threats, but also strives to <br />restore the functional wildness of landscapes fragmented by human activity. Wilderness <br />Workshop works to protect and preserve existing wilderness areas, advocate for expanding <br />wilderness, defend roadless areas from development that would destroy their wilderness <br />8 <br />