Congressional Public Lands Score by More Than Just Parks

Ashley Moody

Republican · U.S. Senate · Florida

Ranked #54 (tied) of 98 scored

Scored under 60%. Seat on the 2026 ballot.

Sen. Ashley Moody, a Republican from Florida, earns an F on the Congressional Public Lands Score. Of the 19 scored Senate votes, Moody cast 0 for public lands and 19 against. The two closest: Yea on One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1), 50 to 50, and Yea on Overturning Boundary Waters Mining Ban (H.J.Res.140), 50 to 49. Moody's seat is on the ballot in November 2026.

Every scored vote: 19 of 19 U.S. Senate votes counted

Anti-lands
Lilly Fish and Wildlife and Parks (En Bloc) S.Res.817
En bloc confirmation of 74 nominees under S.Res.817, including Kevin Lilly as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, the official overseeing the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Lilly, a Texas wealth manager, drew formal opposition from the National Parks Conservation Association, and senators from both parties questioned his lack of land management experience. Confirmed 51-47. Senators who voted Yea confirmed every nominee in the package.
Voted Yea · August 7, 2026 · Roll call 225, 51 to 47
Anti-lands
Pearce BLM Director (En Bloc) S.Res.690
En bloc confirmation of 49 nominees under S.Res.690, including Stevan Pearce as Director of the Bureau of Land Management, the agency managing 245 million acres of public land. As a congressman, Pearce repeatedly backed transferring or selling federal public land. Confirmed 46-43. Senators who voted Yea confirmed every nominee in the package.
Voted Yea · May 18, 2026 · Roll call 125, 46 to 43
Anti-lands
Overturning Boundary Waters Mining Ban H.J.Res.140
CRA resolution overturning the 20-year mining ban on 225,000 acres of the Superior National Forest upstream of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the most visited wilderness in America. Became Public Law 119-85.
Voted Yea · April 16, 2026 · Roll call 84, 50 to 49
Anti-lands
Opening Arctic Refuge to Drilling H.J.Res.131
CRA resolution overturning the 2024 environmental protections for oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, stripping safeguards from the 1.56-million-acre coastal plain calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd
Voted Yea · December 4, 2025 · Roll call 632, 49 to 45
Anti-lands
Overturning Powder River Basin Coal Protections (WY) H.J.Res.130
CRA resolution nullifying the Bureau of Land Management's 2024 Buffalo Field Office resource management plan amendment in Wyoming, which made approximately 413,000 acres of federal coal unavailable for future leasing in the Powder River Basin.
Voted Yea · November 20, 2025 · Roll call 623, 51 to 43
Anti-lands
Opening Western Arctic to Drilling S.J.Res.80
CRA resolution nullifying the 2022 management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, which had closed about half of the 23-million-acre Western Arctic reserve to new oil and gas leasing
Voted Yea · October 30, 2025 · Roll call 599, 52 to 45
Anti-lands
Overturning Central Yukon Protections (AK) H.J.Res.106
CRA resolution nullifying the Bureau of Land Management's Central Yukon resource management plan in Alaska, which designated 21 areas of critical environmental concern covering approximately 3.6 million acres. The resolution removed a land-plan barrier to the Ambler Road, which would cross Gates of the Arctic National Preserve; the administration had restored the road's federal permits three days earlier. Became Public Law 119-50.
Voted Yea · October 9, 2025 · Roll call 560, 50 to 46
Anti-lands
Overturning Miles City BLM Protections (MT) H.J.Res.104
CRA resolution rolling back Bureau of Land Management resource management plans for the Miles City Field Office in Montana, opening public lands to expanded industrial use
Voted Yea · October 8, 2025 · Roll call 549, 52 to 47
Anti-lands
Overturning North Dakota BLM Protections H.J.Res.105
CRA resolution rolling back Bureau of Land Management resource management plans for the North Dakota Field Office, removing protections from public lands across the state
Voted Yea · October 8, 2025 · Roll call 556, 50 to 45
Anti-lands
Boren USDA Under Secretary (En Bloc) S.Res.412
En bloc confirmation of 108 nominees under S.Res.412, including Michael Boren as USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, the official directly overseeing the U.S. Forest Service. Confirmed 51-47. Senators who voted Yea confirmed every nominee in the package.
Voted Yea · October 7, 2025 · Roll call 547, 51 to 47
Anti-lands
Nesvik USFWS Director PN25-35
Confirmed Brian Nesvik as Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency responsible for endangered species protections and the National Wildlife Refuge System
Voted Yea · August 1, 2025 · Roll call 470, 54 to 43
Anti-lands
One Big Beautiful Bill H.R.1
Reconciliation bill mandating four Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain lease sales, five National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska lease sales, a four-million-acre coal leasing mandate, coal royalty rate cuts from 12.5% to 7%, a 250-million-board-foot yearly increase in national forest timber sales through 2034, and rescinding Inflation Reduction Act conservation funding
Voted Yea · July 1, 2025 · Roll call 372, 50 to 50
Anti-lands
Vaden Deputy Agriculture PN12-43
Confirmed Stephen Vaden as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, second in command of the department that houses the U.S. Forest Service
Voted Yea · June 10, 2025 · Roll call 301, 51 to 44
Anti-lands
MacGregor Deputy Interior PN13-10
Confirmed Katharine MacGregor as Deputy Secretary of the Interior, the department's chief operating officer, who led first-term efforts to shrink national monuments and expand drilling on public lands
Voted Yea · May 14, 2025 · Roll call 250, 54 to 40
Anti-lands
Overturning Glen Canyon Safeguards H.J.Res.60
CRA resolution overturning the National Park Service rule limiting off-road vehicle use in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, reopening those routes to motorized use
Voted Yea · May 8, 2025 · Roll call 239, 50 to 43
Anti-lands
Preventing Public Lands Sell-Off S.Amdt.2107
Budget resolution amendment (H.Con.Res.14) to bar the use of proceeds from selling federal public land for deficit reduction, the Senate's recorded vote on public land sales ahead of the reconciliation bill
Voted Nay · April 5, 2025 · Roll call 181, 48 to 51
Anti-lands
Reinstating Fired Land Managers S.Amdt.540
Budget resolution amendment (S.Con.Res.7) creating a reserve fund to reinstate the federal employees fired from the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Forest Service
Voted Nay · February 20, 2025 · Roll call 68, 48 to 52
Anti-lands
Rollins Agriculture Confirmation PN11-12
Confirmed Brooke Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service and 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands
Voted Yea · February 13, 2025 · Roll call 53, 72 to 28
Anti-lands
Burgum Confirmation PN11-3
Confirmed Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior, who oversees the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, despite his stated agenda to expand oil and gas extraction on public land
Voted Yea · January 30, 2025 · Roll call 26, 80 to 17

Roll calls and tallies from senate.gov, read October 26, 2026. Which side counts as pro-lands is the scorecard's call on each vote (methodology). Provision ratings: none of these bills has an approved rating yet, so none is named here.

Call Senator Moody through the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

Open the full record in the scorecard

Public lands bills Moody sponsors or cosponsors

In the 119th Congress, Moody sponsors 1 and cosponsors 3 public lands bills.

S.3082 American Shores Protection Act of 2025
Sponsor · Introduced October 30, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.5654 Establish a moratorium on oil and gas production and exploration activities in the Eglin Gulf Test and Training Range
Original cosponsor · Signed on September 30, 2026 · Not yet rated
S.Res.837 Designating the week of August 22 through August 30, 2026, as "National Park Week"
Original cosponsor · Signed on August 6, 2026 · Not yet rated
S.2270 Myakka Wild and Scenic River Act of 2025
Cosponsor · Signed on April 22, 2026 · Not yet rated

Bills and cosponsors from the congress.gov API, read October 1, 2026. A bill is rated only when a named person approves a rating that quotes its provision; none of these has one yet.

Moody's committees

Joint Economic Committee
Senate Committee on Armed Services
Airland; Emerging Threats and Capabilities; Seapower
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Education and the American Family; Primary Health and Retirement Security
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Border Management, Federal Workforce, and Regulatory Affairs; Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights; Border Security and Immigration; Intellectual Property; Privacy, Technology, and the Law
Senate Special Committee on Aging

Committee seats from unitedstates/congress-legislators, read July 3, 2026.

Public lands in Florida

127 federal land units lie in or reach into Florida. Parks with a More Than Just Parks guide: Everglades National Park, Biscayne National Park, Dry Tortugas National Park.

Listed park guides first, then by size; the largest 40 of 127 are named.

Everglades National Park 1,538,633 acres
Biscayne National Park 173,836 acres
Everglades National Park Expansion 109,347 acres
Dry Tortugas National Park 64,778 acres
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary 2,434,643 acres
Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness Area 1,338,508 acres
Apalachicola National Forest 576,374 acres
Big Cypress National Preserve 541,492 acres
Eglin Air Force Base 449,996 acres
Lake Okeechobee Army Corps of Engineers · 440,466 acres
Key West National Wildlife Refuge 422,590 acres
Ocala National Forest 384,657 acres
Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge 339,154 acres
Osceola National Forest 160,040 acres
Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge 145,264 acres
Big Cypress National Preserve Addition 142,186 acres
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge 129,419 acres
Tortugas Ecological Reserve NOAA · 116,088 acres
Avon Park Air Force Range 106,418 acres
Pinhook Purchase Unit Forest Service · 96,471 acres
St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge 87,197 acres
National Key Deer Refuge 81,134 acres
Gulf Islands National Seashore 71,850 acres
Ocala National Game Refuge 68,284 acres
Canaveral National Seashore 58,460 acres
Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge 51,716 acres
Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve 45,695 acres
Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge 33,944 acres
Dry Tortugas Research Natural Area National Park Service · 29,647 acres
Tyndall Air Force Base 28,954 acres
Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge 28,266 acres
Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge 26,389 acres
Bradwell Bay Wilderness 24,222 acres
Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area 23,638 acres
Tortugas Bank Anchoring Restriction Area NOAA · 20,611 acres
Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge 19,274 acres
Seminole Recreation Area 17,724 acres
St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area 17,505 acres
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve 16,646 acres
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Defense Department · 16,015 acres

Fires burning on public land in Florida

Fire 105 Fire 215 acres, updated October 20, 2026
Pine Lakes Fire 119 acres, updated October 19, 2026

Threatened public lands in Florida

Federal land units from PAD-US, matched to the state's districts in the More Than Just Parks record, refreshed October 22, 2026; acres are each unit's full size, and units overlap, so they are not added up. Easements on private land are left out. Fires from NIFC; mining claims, leases and timber sales from BLM and Forest Service records; read October 26, 2026.

Who funds Moody on lands issues

PACs and other committees gave Moody's campaign $2,446,169 in the 2025-26 cycle. Across the 1 cycle on record, oil, gas, mining and timber PACs gave $47,000, and conservation PACs gave nothing.

Cycle	All PACs and committees	Oil and gas	Mining and coal	Timber	Conservation
2025-26	$2,446,169	$27,500	none	$19,500	none

Itemized contributions from committees to the candidate (FEC S6FL00640), net of refunds, read October 26, 2026. Industry is the giving PAC's industry in the More Than Just Parks record. A contribution says who gave, not why anyone voted as they did.

How Moody compares

The median senator scores 5%. Moody scores 0% and ranks #54 (tied) of 98.

More from Florida

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What to ask Moody

Washington office: 387 Russell Senate Office Building. Phone (202) 224-3041. Official site

From Moody's own record:

Why did you vote Yea on Lilly Fish and Wildlife and Parks (En Bloc) (S.Res.817)?
Why did you vote Yea on Pearce BLM Director (En Bloc) (S.Res.690)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Boundary Waters Mining Ban (H.J.Res.140)?
Why did you vote Yea on Opening Arctic Refuge to Drilling (H.J.Res.131)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Powder River Basin Coal Protections (WY) (H.J.Res.130)?
Why did you vote Yea on Opening Western Arctic to Drilling (S.J.Res.80)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Central Yukon Protections (AK) (H.J.Res.106)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Miles City BLM Protections (MT) (H.J.Res.104)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning North Dakota BLM Protections (H.J.Res.105)?
Why did you vote Yea on Boren USDA Under Secretary (En Bloc) (S.Res.412)?
Why did you vote Yea on Nesvik USFWS Director (PN25-35)?
Why did you vote Yea on One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1)?
Why did you vote Yea on Vaden Deputy Agriculture (PN12-43)?
Why did you vote Yea on MacGregor Deputy Interior (PN13-10)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Glen Canyon Safeguards (H.J.Res.60)?
Why did you vote Nay on Preventing Public Lands Sell-Off (S.Amdt.2107)?
Why did you vote Nay on Reinstating Fired Land Managers (S.Amdt.540)?
Why did you vote Yea on Rollins Agriculture Confirmation (PN11-12)?
Why did you vote Yea on Burgum Confirmation (PN11-3)?

Offices and phones from the Senate and House member feeds and unitedstates/congress-legislators, checked October 22, 2026.

Questions people ask

How did Ashley Moody vote on One Big Beautiful Bill?

Ashley Moody voted Yea on One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1) on July 1, 2025. The Senate vote was 50 to 50, and the scorecard counts Nay as the vote for public lands.

Is Ashley Moody up for election in 2026?

Yes. Ashley Moody's Senate seat from Florida is on the ballot in November 2026. Moody's grade on the 19 scored Senate votes so far is an F.

What public lands are in Florida?

127 federal land units lie in or reach into Florida. The largest are Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (2,434,643 acres), Everglades National Park (1,538,633 acres) and Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness Area (1,338,508 acres).