A concerted, aggressive, and shady scheme to sell off America’s public lands and waters kicked off this week, in what promises to be an unprecedented assault on America’s public lands and waters.
Right now, behind closed doors, the Interior Department is rushing through a 15-day review of America’s national monuments and other protected public lands that belong to all of us. This attack on public lands is a blatant, illegal attempt to gut our country’s monuments and parks to benefit the highest bidders. We don’t have a moment to waste.
We’ve seen this playbook before. In 2017, a similar review resulted in President Donald Trump slashing national monument boundaries, including Bears Ears in Utah. But this time, the Trump administration, Interior Department, and their anti-public lands lackeys in Congress are moving even faster because they know the public overwhelmingly opposes their real agenda: auctioning off public lands and waters to the highest bidders.
Lands and Waters Need Your Voice NOW. Here are Three Ways to Fight Back:
1. Speak Up Right Now:
Secretary Burgum and Congress need to hear from you TODAY. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Tell them what these places mean to you – your camping trips, family memories, sacred spaces. The more personal, the more powerful.
➡️ Take two minutes. We’ve made it easy – just click here.
2. Fund the Fight:
Every donation, large and small, strengthens our defense to:
- Amplify and mobilize local voices to push back
- Launch rapid response legal, advocacy, and policy teams
- Keep public lands in public hands where they belong
3. Sound the Alarm:
They’re counting on our silence. It’s time for us to GET LOUD.
- ✉️ Forward this alert to your friends and family
- 📱 Share our calls-to-action on social media (Facebook, Instagram, X, or Linkedin)
- 📞 Call the Department of the Interior: (202) 208-3100
- 📢 Spread the word in your community
As you well know, national monuments and other protected public lands aren’t just dots on a map. These are the places where you’re guaranteed access to camp under starlit skies, where your children first learned to fish, where ancient stories are written in stone.
When we lose access to these places, we lose pieces of ourselves and the lands and waters that sustain us and our local communities. Forever. We can’t let that happen.
This Is Our Moment
This isn’t just another call to action. This is the start of an unrelenting show of force, but we need you. Let’s show these anti-public lands zealots that millions of people support monuments not monuments for millionaires. We know there are many pressing issues demanding your attention right now and we hope we can count on you to make the fight to defend public lands and waters a priority this year – the future of these cherished places depends on us.
