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Protect public lands – connect vast landscapes where wildlife can roam
Public Lands
Our greatest conservation opportunity is protecting and connecting the West’s vast landscapes where majestic wildlife can roam—from the largest grizzly to the smallest meadow jumping mouse; where birds can soar and sage grouse can strut; where fish thrive in water that is pure and clean; and where people experience the primal power of the wild.
Yet the federal government and corporate interests have other ideas, and are bent on destroying public lands, waters, and wildlife with increased logging, mining, livestock grazing, oil and gas development, motorized use, and even more roads.
Guardians combats this culture of extraction with connection, protection, and healing, deploying strategies from education and restoration to advocacy and litigation to preserve and restore America’s wild places, wild rivers, and wildlife. We think and act at the local, regional, and West-wide levels: from the unparalleled biodiversity of the Greater Gila in New Mexico to the majesty of Glacier National Park, from the mountain sources of rushing rivers along their flow through the Pacific Northwest, we strive for vast, interconnected landscapes teeming with the diversity of life.
The Status of the Grizzly Bear: Has it Really Recovered?
Five leading experts present their findings.
Public Lands Program Work
WildEarth Guardians plants native vegetation along riversides once scarred by livestock grazing, protects wild landscapes from disruptive and damaging motorized off-road vehicles, and much more.
Public Lands in Public Hands
Protecting public lands from agencies, Congress, modern-day robber barons, and everyone else who seeks to privatize them
Ecosystem Restoration
Restoring scarred landscapes by planting trees, removing fences, and bringing beavers back
Rewild Lands and Waters
Removing unneeded roads from public lands, maintaining roads that are still needed, and restoring passage for fish when roads block their spawning grounds
Moderating Motorized Use
Keeping off-road vehicles and snowmobiles off of fragile landscapes to protect wildlife and water quality
The Greater Gila
Safeguarding the diversity and dynamism of the Greater Gila Bioregion, including working with ranchers to retire grazing allotments and return Mexican wolves to their ancestral homeland
Grazing Permit Retirement
A proven strategy to equitably resolve conflicts between historic uses and modern ecological realities
Recent Stories From Public Lands
National Forest Roads and Wildfire
Forest roads increase wildfire risk, affect fire behavior, and cause serious ecological impacts when fire strikes
Six cars, 6,000 households, two rivers, and one skewed priority
Keeping water clean at the source
Recovering Mexican spotted owls and restoring trust
At a time when my faith in many American institutions is declining, I still have faith in some of the good people who serve in government
Public Lands Press
New Mexico public lands at risk as trapping season begins
ALBUQUERQUE, NM—Sunday,…
Read more >Recovering Mexican Spotted Owls and Restoring Trust
Now, perhaps more than ever, it is important to ask the question, “what does our country need most?” To that question, I answer “grown-ups.” The Cambridge dictionary defines “grown-up” as someone who behaves in a mature and responsible way.
Read more >Suit takes aim at Pendley status in hopes of tossing new Uncompahgre Resource Management Plan
Conservation groups that previously sued over the updated resource management plan for the Uncompahgre Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management now contend the plan is void, because at the time of its approval, William Perry Pendley was illegally exercising the authority of the BLM’s acting director.
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