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2023 Highlights
The Conservation Lands Foundation had an impactful and successful year including these major accomplishments:
- We added long-lasting protections to 1.5 million acres of public land (that’s the size of Delaware!), which serves multiple objectives including improving air and water quality, strengthening local economies, preserving sacred landscapes, and supporting our overall health and wellbeing.
- We drove a record level of public support for the newly proposed Public Lands Rule, which puts conservation on equal footing with other uses for all 250 million acres managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
- We won significant legal victories against attacks on Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments and Red Cliffs National Conservation Area in Utah.
- We granted almost $2 million for community-led advocacy, restoration and public engagement programs through our Friends Grassroots Network.
Photo: Bears Ears National Monument, UT
2024 Priorities
This year will be pivotal for continuing on the momentum we built in 2023. A few examples of our priorities are to:
- Continue to add protections to millions of acres of BLM-managed lands, focusing on seven priority landscapes including:
- Dolores River in Colorado
- Chuckwalla in California
- Owyhee Canyonlands in Oregon
- Great Bend of the Gila in Arizona
- Molok Luyuk in California
- Kw'tsán in California
- Hold our 2024 Friends Summit in Salt Lake City to support, train, and build capacity for over 70 of our Friends Grassroots Network partners.
- Grant another $2M to our Friends groups across the American West.
- Continue to press on the administration to deliver on its goal to protect 30% of land by 2030.
Photo: Great Bend of the Gila, AZ
