There are just hours left to join our first-ever Day for the Wild—and have your gift DOUBLED to protect public lands now under attack.
This moment couldn't be more urgent. The administration and its allies in Congress are waging a coordinated campaign of rollbacks and budget cuts that will devastate public lands across the West. This could include places like Bears Ears National Monument—an iconic landscape in the administration's sights, according to media reports—and long coveted by mining companies.
With the clock ticking, we're racing toward our 500-donor goal. Make your gift now and it will be MATCHED 2X—up to $500,000, thanks to a generous donor—to power legal action, grassroots advocacy and public pressure campaigns to defend Bears Ears and all our nation's public lands >>
When the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" passed in July, Congress—guided by Trump's energy dominance agenda—delivered one of the biggest public lands giveaways in U.S. history. It put over 200 million acres on the auction block for fossil fuel development, and mandated oil and gas lease sales in every Western state and the Arctic.
It doesn't stop there. The administration is pushing even further: weighing plans to slash protections from beloved national monuments in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah to open them to destructive drilling and mining.
These dual attacks aren't isolated. They represent a sweeping plan to make fossil fuel extraction the dominant use of our public lands, and stunning places like Bears Ears—sacred to many Indigenous peoples and home to irreplaceable cultural, ecological and historical treasures—could be on the chopping block.
They're also dismantling federal land management agencies by reducing their work forces and slashing their budgets—leaving fewer park rangers, scientists, archaeologists, biologists, firefighters and other emergency responders on the ground to safeguard these lands, along with the communities who cherish and depend on them.
We can't afford to lose this ground again. And we can't afford to wait. Please, rush your gift before midnight tonight and it'll be DOUBLED to power the work ahead of us to advocate for the lands we love and the people who care for them. If you make your gift monthly, it'll be doubled through the end of 2025 >>
We've protected places like Bears Ears before. Today, we're coming together from all over the country to stand up for the wild and protect them once again. We need you to join us, Momoko.
—The Wilderness Society
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