Congressional Public Lands Score by More Than Just Parks
Mark Warner
Scored 90% or higher. Seat on the 2026 ballot.
Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, earns an A on the Congressional Public Lands Score. Of the 19 scored Senate votes, Warner cast 18 for public lands and 1 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. Warner's seat is on the ballot in November 2026.
Every scored vote: 19 of 19 U.S. Senate votes counted
- Pro-landsLilly 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-landsPearce 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-landsOverturning 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-landsOpening 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-landsOverturning 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-landsOpening 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-landsOverturning 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-landsOverturning 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-landsOverturning 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-landsBoren 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-landsNesvik 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-landsOne 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-landsVaden 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-landsMacGregor 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-landsOverturning 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-landsPreventing 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-landsReinstating 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
- Pro-landsRollins 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 Nay · February 13, 2025 · Roll call 53, 72 to 28
- Anti-landsBurgum 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 Warner through the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
Open the full record in the scorecardPublic lands bills Warner sponsors or cosponsors
In the 119th Congress, Warner sponsors 0 and cosponsors 8 public lands bills.
- 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.3925 Julius Rosenwald and Rosenwald Schools National Historical Park Act
Original cosponsor · Signed on February 25, 2026 · Not yet rated
- S.791 Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2025
Cosponsor · Signed on October 16, 2025 · Not yet rated
- S.2042 Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2025
Cosponsor · Signed on July 8, 2025 · Not yet rated
- S.1680 Virginia Wilderness Additions Act of 2025
Original cosponsor · Signed on May 8, 2025 · Not yet rated
- S.Res.180 Designating the week of April 19 through April 27, 2025, as "National Park Week"
Original cosponsor · Signed on April 10, 2025 · Not yet rated
- S.1408 Chesapeake National Recreation Area Act of 2025
Original cosponsor · Signed on April 10, 2025 · Not yet rated
- S.603 Designate the General George C. Marshall House, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an affiliated area of the National Park System
Original cosponsor · Signed on February 13, 2025 · Not yet rated
Bills and cosponsors from the congress.gov API, read September 26, 2026. A bill is rated only when a named person approves a rating that quotes its provision; none of these has one yet.
Warner's committees
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Digital Assets; Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection; Securities, Insurance, and Investment (Ranking Member)
- Senate Committee on Finance
Health Care; International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness; Taxation and IRS Oversight
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
- Senate Committee on the Budget
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (Vice Chairman)
Committee seats from unitedstates/congress-legislators, read July 3, 2026.
Public lands in Virginia
183 federal land units lie in or reach into Virginia. The park with a More Than Just Parks guide: Shenandoah National Park.
Listed park guides first, then by size; the largest 40 of 183 are named.
- Shenandoah National Park 196,758 acres
- George Washington National Forest 1,067,468 acres
- Jefferson National Forest 713,334 acres
- Mount Rogers National Recreation Area 154,913 acres
- Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge 86,451 acres
- Shenandoah Wilderness Area 82,337 acres
- Fort Walker 74,612 acres
- Marine Corps Base Quantico 59,030 acres
- National Guard Fort Barfoot Materials Testing Center & Field Maintenance 15 41,106 acres
- John H. Kerr Reservoir Army Corps of Engineers · 37,317 acres
- Blue Ridge Parkway 35,237 acres
- Little River Roadless Area 27,292 acres
- Assateague Island National Seashore 20,835 acres
- Appalachian National Scenic Trail 19,692 acres
- Cumberland Gap National Historical Park 18,642 acres
- Bear Creek Roadless Area 18,274 acres
- Jerkemtight Roadless Area 16,687 acres
- Mountain Lake Wilderness 13,363 acres
- Oliver Mountain Roadless Area 13,090 acres
- Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge 12,787 acres
- Ramseys Draft Addition Roadless Area 12,781 acres
- Gum Run Roadless Area 12,620 acres
- Prince William Forest Park 12,589 acres
- Big Levels National Game Refuge 12,147 acres
- Southern Massanutten Roadless Area 11,985 acres
- Joint Base Langley-Eustis 11,027 acres
- Broad Run Roadless Area 10,971 acres
- Oak Knob Roadless Area 10,882 acres
- Mill Mountain Roadless Area 10,840 acres
- Naval Weapons Station Yorktown Defense Department · 10,390 acres
- Little Alleghany Roadless Area 10,213 acres
- Laurel Fork Roadless Area 9,965 acres
- Crawford Mountain Roadless Area 9,892 acres
- Saint Mary'S Wilderness 9,827 acres
- Little Walker Mountain Roadless Area 9,818 acres
- Northern Massanutten Roadless Area 9,444 acres
- Elliott Knob Roadless Area 9,380 acres
- Rough Mountain Wilderness 9,327 acres
- Price Mountain Roadless Area 9,120 acres
- Hunting Camp Little Wolf Creek Roadless Area 8,953 acres
Drilling, mining and logging on record in Virginia: 91 timber sales (2,003 acres); 15 oil and gas leases (9,656 acres).
Threatened public lands in Virginia
Federal land units from PAD-US, matched to the state's districts in the More Than Just Parks record, refreshed October 20, 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 Warner on lands issues
PACs and other committees gave Warner's campaign $2,490,274 in the 2025-26 cycle. Across the 4 cycles on record, oil, gas, mining and timber PACs gave $53,500, and conservation PACs gave $14,382.
| Cycle | All PACs and committees | Oil and gas | Mining and coal | Timber | Conservation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | $2,517,955 | $14,000 | none | $3,500 | $8,000 |
| 2021-22 | $554,907 | $2,500 | none | none | $3,807 |
| 2023-24 | $723,650 | none | none | none | none |
| 2025-26 | $2,490,274 | $28,500 | none | $5,000 | $2,575 |
Itemized contributions from committees to the candidate (FEC S6VA00093, FEC P80003023), 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 Warner compares
The median senator scores 5%. Warner scores 95% and ranks #16 (tied) of 98.
More from Virginia
Sen. Timothy Kaine A · Rep. Robert Wittman F · Rep. Jennifer Kiggans F · Rep. Robert Scott A+ · Rep. Jennifer McClellan A+ · Rep. John McGuire F · Rep. Ben Cline F · Rep. Eugene Vindman B · Rep. Donald Beyer A+ · Rep. H. Griffith F · Rep. Suhas Subramanyam A+ · Rep. James Walkinshaw A
What to ask Warner
Washington office: 703 Hart Senate Office Building. Phone (202) 224-2023. Write to Warner · Official site
From Warner's own record:
- 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 Mark Warner vote on One Big Beautiful Bill?
Mark Warner voted Nay 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 Mark Warner up for election in 2026?
Yes. Mark Warner's Senate seat from Virginia is on the ballot in November 2026. Warner's grade on the 19 scored Senate votes so far is an A.
What public lands are in Virginia?
183 federal land units lie in or reach into Virginia. The largest are George Washington National Forest (1,067,468 acres), Jefferson National Forest (713,334 acres) and Shenandoah National Park (196,758 acres).