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flowers and a river
By Conservation Lands Foundation • September 18, 2026
The Conservation Lands Foundation is hiring a California Program Associate Director to help advance our work to expand, protect, and defend National Conservation Lands in California.
Ancient dwelling site with red rocks in a canyon crevice, the rock above it looks like fire burning
September 17, 2026
Piling on to Trump’s proclamation, Lee could soon attempt to rip up the national monument’s land-use plan, which reflects a historic collaborative management process with five Tribal Nations.
Landscape of Bears Ears with tall rock features, red dirt, green plants and blue sky
September 16, 2026
Within a day, industry clamoring to exploit landscape.
desert landscape
By Conservation Lands Foundation • September 2, 2026
Conservation Lands Foundation, Grand Staircase Escalante Partners, and Society of Vertebrate Paleontology today filed motions asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to allow them to challenge President Trump’s most recent assault on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Cultural site in Bears Ears National Monument
By Conservation Lands Foundation • September 2, 2026
The Conservation Lands Foundation and partners working to protect and defend Bears Ears National Monument today filed motions asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to allow them to challenge President Trump’s most recent assault on Bears Ears National Monument.
desert landscape at sunset
By Chris Hill, CEO, Conservation Lands Foundation • September 2, 2026
This week, Conservation Lands Foundation and our co-plaintiffs asked a federal court to reopen our 2017 lawsuits over Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. We did this so we can file supplemental complaints challenging President Trump's July 13, 2026, proclamations attempting to dismantle them.
Desert landscape with rocks
By Conservation Lands Foundation • September 1, 2026
In this issue, we provide an update on our fight to defend Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments; a wrap-up of the Interior Department’s wilderness review comment period; and much more!
Sunrise over cliffs and vista of Bears Ears National Monument
August 20, 2026
Piling on top of Trump’s proclamation, Lee could soon fast-track an attempt to rip up the national monument's land-use plan, which reflects a historic collaborative management process with five Tribal Nations.
By Act Now For Public Lands • August 17, 2026
Public comments urge the Administration to abandon its review and preserve longstanding safeguards for America’s public lands.
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