Speak up for Public Lands Staff
The people who care for our public lands are disappearing.
Public lands agencies have lost thousands of employees nationwide, leaving fewer people to care for the parks, forests, and open spaces families depend on.
Since January 2025, more than 5,800 public lands workers have been fired or pushed out across six Western states, including nearly one in four permanent National Park Service employees and approximately 3,400 U.S. Forest Service workers.
For families, these cuts can mean closed campgrounds, unmaintained trails, slower emergency response times, increased wildfire risks, and fewer opportunities for children to safely connect with the outdoors.
We’re already seeing the consequences: overflowing trash cans, closed facilities, and fewer staff available to maintain and protect the public lands we all share. The proposed FY2027 budget would cut public lands funding by another 35%, putting even more of these essential jobs at risk.
What can we do?
Tell Congress to fully fund our public lands and reinstate the staff who care for them.
If we want our kids to continue enjoying safe, accessible, and well-maintained parks, trails, and public lands, we need to speak up now. Contact your Member of Congress and urge them to support the Public Lands Workforce Stability Act (H.R. 8523), which would help rebuild the workforce that protects and cares for the outdoor spaces our families depend on.
Speak up for the Roadless Rule
What is happening?
The Roadless Rule has protected 58 million acres of our wildest and most untouched National Forest land for more than 25 years, with no new roads and no industrial logging in places that have never had them. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has opened a formal rulemaking process to rescind it entirely. The Roadless Rule is one of the most important protections for America’s wild forests. Joining us in ensuring they remain resilient and accessible for future generations.
Why does it matter?
If the Roadless Rule is eliminated, these forests, including headwaters that supply drinking water to communities across the West, could be opened to road construction and logging for the first time. Wildlife corridors that species depend on for survival would be fragmented. Wildfire risk could increase. And the quiet, wild places where our families hike and camp could be changed forever.
What Can We Do?
Interactive Map
Our friends at WildMontana put together some great facts and an interactive map of Montana’s roadless areas.
Check Your State
To look up Inventoried Roadless Areas by state, check out the Forest Service Maps.
Help Us Protect Our National Monuments
Our national monuments are being targeted, and a new legal tool makes the threat even bigger.
What is happening?
National monuments protect some of our most irreplaceable landscapes, places where our kids can hike through ancient canyons, learn about Indigenous history, and see wildlife in their natural habitats. Right now, those protections are under attack in a new and particularly dangerous way.
In early 2026, Utah politicians used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to introduce a resolution to permanently repeal the management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. If successful, this would set a precedent allowing Congress to use the same tactic against any national monument’s management plan across the country. Worse, once something is reversed under the CRA, a nearly identical plan cannot be put in place again; the damage would be permanent.
What can we do?
Contact your representatives and tell them: keep your hands off our national monuments.
The monuments we are fighting for in our states are linked below. Find your state to learn about these magnificent landscapes we are working to protect.
Raise Your Voice for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)
America’s most important conservation funding tool is still under threat.
The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is America’s most important program to conserve irreplaceable lands and improve outdoor recreation opportunities throughout the nation. The program works in partnership with federal, state and local efforts to protect land in our national parks, national wildlife refuges, national forests, national trails, and other public lands; to preserve working forests and ranchlands; to support state and local parks and playgrounds; to preserve battlefields and other historic and cultural sites; and to provide the tools that communities need to meet their diverse conservation and recreation needs.
What is happening?
The Land and Water Conservation Fund is the backbone of America’s conservation infrastructure. For 60 years, it has used a small share of offshore oil and gas royalties, not taxpayer dollars, to fund conservation and recreation projects, protect national parks, wildlife refuges, forests, trails, and local playgrounds. The Great American Outdoors Act of 2020 finally guaranteed its full funding.
But in September 2025, the administration proposed reversing that guarantee, diverting LWCF funds entirely from conservation projects. Congress pushed back: in January 2026, the FY26 Interior Appropriations bill passed with LWCF funding intact, allowing 2025 and 2026 projects to move forward. That’s a real win, but the program needs permanent, protected funding, and the fight is not over.
What can we do?
Stay informed and tell your representatives to permanently protect LWCF funding.
Use the tools below to see LWCF projects in your community, then contact your elected officials and tell them this program is worth protecting.
Interactive LWCF Project Map
LWCF Factsheet
LWCF Story Map
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