Raise Your Voice for Public Lands!
Having safe, healthy outdoor public spaces for our families to connect with nature and each other is vital. But between staffing cuts and threats to roll back protections for national monuments, some of our most cherished shared outdoor spaces are under attack. Now, it’s up to us to raise our voices to protect them.
What is happening?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has opened an official rulemaking process to rescind the Roadless Rule.
If this happens, it could have serious consequences, putting vital wildlife corridors and community drinking water supplies at risk and jeopardizing sensitive ecosystems that have never had roads built through them. Wildfire risk could increase and we could begin to see some of our most cherished camping and hiking haunts become unrecognizable.
¿Qué podemos hacer?
Use your outside voices! Tell Congress to fully fund public lands and reinstate the staff who care for them.
Email your Senators and Representative today and tell them: protect public lands, protect staff, and protect the future our kids deserve. Get started at the link below.
Speak up for the Roadless Rule
The Roadless Rule keeps some of our most wild places free of roadbuilding and logging. It preserves critical wildlife habitats, protects clean water sources and secures areas for us to recreate on with our families. By ensuring these areas remain untrampled, the Roadless Rule is one of the most important protections for America’s wild forests, ensuring they remain resilient and accessible for future generations. But it is under attack, and it’s up to us to stand up and tell federal officials: don’t mess with the Roadless Rule.
What is happening?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has opened an official rulemaking process to rescind the Roadless Rule.
If this happens, it could have serious consequences, putting vital wildlife corridors and community drinking water supplies at risk and jeopardizing sensitive ecosystems that have never had roads built through them. Wildfire risk could increase and we could begin to see some of our most cherished camping and hiking haunts become unrecognizable.
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.
Take the Public Lands Pledge
Since January, thousands of federal positions have been eliminated, including the folks who take care of our national parks and public lands. Throughout the summer of 2025, visitors to national parks and other public lands have reported overflowing trash cans, absence of staff, other visitors not following rules and other disruptions.
With fewer park staff members on the ground, it’s up to all of us to take care of our public lands. By signing the Public Lands Pledge, you can do your part to be a good steward of our public lands and help others to do the same.
We invite you to take the Mountain Mamas Pledge and commit to caring for our lands, supporting families, and staying informed. Please share this pledge with others and tag and share on your social media to spread the word even further.
Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)
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.
LWCF is a simple idea: to invest a small portion of federal offshore drilling fees towards protecting important land, water and recreation areas for everyone. These are not taxpayer dollars. Unfortunately,
for 55 years the promise of LWCF was broken as $22 billion was diverted from the program. Enactment of the Great American Outdoors Act in August 2020 ended the diversion and ensures that LWCF‘s permanently authorized $900 million is used for conservation and recreation projects each year.
In September 2025, the President’s FY26 budget proposed reversing GAOA by amending LWCF and eliminating all annual priority projects at our National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, National Forests and other public lands, diverting these funds for non-LWCF purposes (see SO 3442). As of January 2026, the house and senate rejected that proposal, passing FY 26 Interior Appropriations funding allowing LWCF Projects for 2025 and 2026 to proceed.
Interactive LWCF Project Map
LWCF Factsheet
We’ll keep you posted here for any actions you can take!
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