Fight for Nature Conservation in the U.S.

Since January 20, 2025, when president Trump signed an executive order directing every agency to “revise” its environmental procedures, this administration has taken more than 40 significant actions that are reducing public oversight and weakening longstanding safeguards to make it easier to drill, mine, log, and build roads across America's public lands.

These include:

• Throwing out more than 80 percent of environmental review regulations. 
• Illegally removing national monument protections and undermining the Antiquities Act. 
• Weakening the Endangered Species Act and protections for sensitive wildlife across all federal public lands.
• Potentially stripping protections and management guidance for wilderness areas and wilderness quality lands - affecting at least 200 million acres of irreplaceable natural sanctuaries of biodiversity, cultural and wildlife resources, and unmatched havens for quiet, backcountry recreation.
• Repealing the Roadless Rule, opening America’s undeveloped forests and grasslands to development. 
• Rescinding the Public Lands Rule, prioritizing industrialization above conservation and outdoor recreation across nearly 250 million acres. 
• Initiating the sell off of the Western Arctic for industrial oil and gas development, imperiling essential wildlife habitats, migration corridors, and Indigenous ways of life in this extremely sensitive environment.
• Fast-tracking coal, mineral, and oil and gas development in protected places across the West, including, in the sacred Chaco Canyon landscape in New Mexico, and virtually eliminating public review and engagement. 
  

These actions systematically reduce public oversight, weaken longstanding safeguards, and prioritize industrial development across America's public lands.

Make a powerful difference.

With your support, we will:

• Pursue legal action to the full extent of the law.
• Flood members of Congress with messages of opposition.
• Mobilize hundreds of thousands of people within the 92 organizations of our Friends Grassroots Network to fight back.
• Defend the Antiquities Act and other bedrock laws as tools to protect essential landscapes.
• Expose the irreversible consequences of removing the protections that are breaking the conservation system. 
  

Please give today. Right now, your gift will go twice as far due to the generosity of a pool of our Board and Emeritus Board members who are providing $117,500 in a matching challenge.

Defend Public Lands!

Your Support Unlocks Our Ability To Fight Back

Public lands are under attack. Policies that strip protections, open landscapes to destruction, and threaten wildlife are on the rise. But you can count on CLF to relentlessly defend nature and your access to these lands.

Thanks to supporters like you, we’ve secured protections for millions of acres. Now, we must defend them. This is our shared investment in nature, climate, and wildlife.

Every gift fuels the fight and together, we amplify our collective power.

Donate today. Protect what matters. Defend public lands.

With your support we will:

Mobilize our Friends Grassroots Network to defend public lands

Hold elected officials accountable and defend bedrock environmental laws

File or intervene in lawsuits when necessary

Drive public advocacy campaigns to overwhelm policymakers with letters of support, petitions, public meetings, D.C. fly-ins, and congressional testimony

Lead the national coalition to fight for Resource Management Plans that protect public lands

Empower our Friends Grassroots Network to be bigger and bolder by providing financial and technical support, training, and policy and legal advice

Whether your contribution is large or small, every person who supports our mission plays a crucial role in preserving America’s public lands now and for future generations.