Congressional Public Lands Score by More Than Just Parks

Scored 80 to 89%.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan, earns a B on the Congressional Public Lands Score. Of the 19 scored Senate votes, Slotkin cast 17 for public lands and 2 against. The two closest: Nay on One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1), 50 to 50, and Nay on Overturning Boundary Waters Mining Ban (H.J.Res.140), 50 to 49. Slotkin's seat is not on the 2026 ballot.

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

• Pro-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 Nay · August 7, 2026 · Roll call 225, 51 to 47

• Pro-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 Nay · May 18, 2026 · Roll call 125, 46 to 43

• Pro-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 Nay · April 16, 2026 · Roll call 84, 50 to 49

• Pro-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 Nay · December 4, 2025 · Roll call 632, 49 to 45

• Pro-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 Nay · November 20, 2025 · Roll call 623, 51 to 43

• Pro-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 Nay · October 30, 2025 · Roll call 599, 52 to 45

• Pro-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 Nay · October 9, 2025 · Roll call 560, 50 to 46

• Pro-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 Nay · October 8, 2025 · Roll call 549, 52 to 47

• Pro-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 Nay · October 8, 2025 · Roll call 556, 50 to 45

• Pro-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 Nay · October 7, 2025 · Roll call 547, 51 to 47

• Pro-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 Nay · August 1, 2025 · Roll call 470, 54 to 43

• Pro-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 Nay · July 1, 2025 · Roll call 372, 50 to 50

• Pro-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 Nay · June 10, 2025 · Roll call 301, 51 to 44

• Pro-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 Nay · May 14, 2025 · Roll call 250, 54 to 40

• Pro-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 Nay · May 8, 2025 · Roll call 239, 50 to 43

• Pro-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 Yea · April 5, 2025 · Roll call 181, 48 to 51

• Pro-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 Yea · 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

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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 Slotkin through the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

Public lands bills Slotkin sponsors or cosponsors

In the 119th Congress, Slotkin sponsors 0 and cosponsors 2 public lands bills.

• S.356 Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025

  Cosponsor · Signed on March 9, 2026 · Not yet rated

• S.950 Save Our Forests Act of 2025

  Cosponsor · Signed on March 31, 2025 · Not yet rated

Bills and cosponsors from the congress.gov API, read September 7, 2026. A bill is rated only when a named person approves a rating that quotes its provision; none of these has one yet.

Slotkin's committees

• Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

  Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade; Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, and Food Safety (Ranking Member)

• Senate Committee on Armed Services

  Airland; Cybersecurity; Emerging Threats and Capabilities (Ranking Member)

• 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 Veterans' Affairs

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

Public lands in Michigan

105 federal land units lie in or reach into Michigan. The park with a More Than Just Parks guide: Isle Royale National Park.

Listed park guides first, then by size; the largest 40 of 105 are named.

• Isle Royale National Park 549,729 acres
• Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve 2,735,244 acres
• Ottawa National Forest 994,772 acres
• Hiawatha National Forest 899,297 acres
• Manistee National Forest 538,905 acres
• Huron National Forest 436,312 acres
• National Guard Maneuver Training Center - Heavy Camp Grayling Defense Department · 146,143 acres
• Isle Royale Wilderness Area 139,701 acres
• Seney National Wildlife Refuge 95,297 acres
• Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore 73,677 acres
• Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore 70,224 acres
• Ontonagon, Michigan Wild and Scenic River 46,125 acres
• Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness Area 31,750 acres
• Tahquamenon, Michigan Wild And Scenic River Study Area 28,776 acres
• Seney National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area 26,757 acres
• Paint, Michigan Wild And Scenic River Study Area 22,307 acres
• White, Michigan Wild And Scenic River Study Area 20,570 acres
• Presque Isle, Michigan Wild and Scenic River 20,224 acres
• Sylvania Wilderness 18,427 acres
• Mccormick Wilderness 17,184 acres
• Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness 16,725 acres
• Paint, Michigan Wild and Scenic River 16,070 acres
• Grand Island National Recreation Area 13,563 acres
• Pere Marquette, Michigan Wild and Scenic River 13,099 acres
• Delirium Wilderness 11,951 acres
• Beaver Basin Wilderness Area 11,748 acres
• Indian, Michigan Wild and Scenic River 11,545 acres
• Mackinac Wilderness 11,426 acres
• Brule, Michigan And Wisconsin Wild And Scenic River Study Area 10,844 acres
• Whitefish, Michigan Wild and Scenic River 10,331 acres
• Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge 10,124 acres
• Little Manistee, Michigan Wild And Scenic River Study Area 9,812 acres
• Seney National Wildlife Refuge National Natural Landmark 9,571 acres
• Sturgeon, Michigan (Ottawa) Wild And Scenic River Study Area 9,455 acres
• Manistee, Michigan Wild and Scenic River 8,921 acres
• Ontonagon, Michigan Wild And Scenic River Study Area 8,876 acres
• Sturgeon, Michigan (Hiawatha Nf) Wild and Scenic River 8,392 acres
• National Guard Combined Training Center Fort Custer Trng Center 7,503 acres
• Fibre Roadless Area 7,432 acres
• Whitefish, Michigan Wild And Scenic River Study Area 7,213 acres

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Fires burning on public land in Michigan

• Ridge Fire 466 acres, 50% contained, updated October 18, 2026
• Craig Lake 1 Fire 606 acres, 90% contained, updated October 18, 2026
• Black River Fire 326 acres, 80% contained, updated October 24, 2026

Drilling, mining and logging on record in Michigan: 2,648 timber sales (105,000 acres); 26 oil and gas leases (8,020 acres).

Threatened public lands in Michigan

• Silver Branch Project (Ottawa National Forest) Developing

Federal land units from PAD-US, matched to the state's districts in the More Than Just Parks record, refreshed October 24, 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 Slotkin on lands issues

PACs and other committees gave Slotkin's campaign $51,027 in the 2025-26 cycle. Across the 4 cycles on record, oil, gas, mining and timber PACs gave nothing, and conservation PACs gave $120,587.

Itemized contributions from committees to the candidate (FEC H8MI08102, FEC S4MI00470), net of refunds, read September 13, 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 Slotkin compares

The median senator scores 5%. Slotkin scores 89% and ranks #29 (tied) of 98.

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What to ask Slotkin

Washington office: 291 Russell Senate Office Building. Phone (202) 224-4822. Official site

From Slotkin's own record:

• 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