Letter From Our Chief Communications Officer National Public Lands Day reminds us how much these places need our care. This year, our Friends Grassroots Network celebrated with trail work, cleanups, and community gatherings, and more events are coming this fall. Thank you to everyone who showed up! That care matters more than ever. In this issue, you'll find out how to speak up for the Western Arctic before Nov. 9, get a first look at our new Public Lands Attack Tracker, and see why mining claims are already landing in Bears Ears. We're also inviting you to find moments of joy, make a plan to vote in the November election, and more.
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.
Within a day, industry clamoring to exploit landscape.
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.
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.
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.
Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area, which protects more than 48,000 acres of Southern Nevada’s Mojave Desert, was expanded by nearly 9,300 acres with the signing by President Trump of the Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act (H.R. 972).
Public land protectors went to Washington DC Capitol Hill to advocate for saving the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The group was comprised of local business owners from gateway towns near Grand Staircase and represented the bipartisan effort to keep the current 2025 Monument Management Plan in place.
A U.S. District Court granted a motion by conservation organizations to block ground-disturbing activities associated with construction of the Northern Corridor Highway through the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area near St. George, Utah.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 26, 2026 Contact: Kris Deutschman, kris@conservationlands.org, Bertha Gutiérrez, bertha@conservationlands.org Las Vegas, NV - The Conservation Lands Foundation celebrates the passing of the Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act (H.R. 972) led by Representative Dina Titus (D-Nevada) and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada), which expands Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area in Southern Nevada by almost 9,300 acres as mitigation for important water infrastructure needed in Southern Nevada. The bill, which passed unanimously in both the House and Senate, is now headed to the President’s desk for his signature. The bill ensures that a water pipeline project by the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) may be constructed underground through the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area. The authority to grant right-of-way access to SNWA in a permanently protected area had to be granted by Congress. “The Horizon Lateral project is an example of how infrastructure projects on National Conservation Lands can have minimal ground disturbance, mitigate anticipated impacts, and address community needs while ensuring the objects and values for which the area was protected remain protected. This legislation is a positive example of a bill that strikes a balance between conservation and development with input from local advocates. We applaud the leadership and commitment of Senator Cortez Masto and Representative Dina Titus to advance balanced public lands legislation” said Jocelyn Torres, Chief Conservation Officer at the Conservation Lands Foundation.
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.
Within a day, industry clamoring to exploit landscape.
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.
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.
Letter From Our Chief Communications Officer National Public Lands Day reminds us how much these places need our care. This year, our Friends Grassroots Network celebrated with trail work, cleanups, and community gatherings, and more events are coming this fall. Thank you to everyone who showed up! That care matters more than ever. In this issue, you'll find out how to speak up for the Western Arctic before Nov. 9, get a first look at our new Public Lands Attack Tracker, and see why mining claims are already landing in Bears Ears. We're also inviting you to find moments of joy, make a plan to vote in the November election, and more.
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.
Within a day, industry clamoring to exploit landscape.
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.
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.
