Congressional Public Lands Score by More Than Just Parks
Tammy Baldwin
Scored 80 to 89%.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin, earns a B on the Congressional Public Lands Score. Of the 19 scored Senate votes, Baldwin 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. Baldwin's seat is not on the 2026 ballot.
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
- Anti-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 Yea · 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 Baldwin through the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
Open the full record in the scorecardPublic lands bills Baldwin sponsors or cosponsors
In the 119th Congress, Baldwin sponsors 1 and cosponsors 5 public lands bills.
- S.5519 Require the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to update the Post-delisting Monitoring Plan for the Western Great Lakes District Population Segment of the Gray Wolf
Sponsor · Introduced September 24, 2026 · Not yet rated
- S.950 Save Our Forests Act of 2025
Cosponsor · Signed on April 29, 2025 · Not yet rated
- S.1519 Arctic Refuge Protection Act of 2025
Original cosponsor · Signed on April 29, 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.1262 Require the Secretary of Agriculture to release a reversionary interest in certain land in the Black River State Forest in Millston, Wisconsin
Original cosponsor · Signed on April 2, 2025 · Not yet rated
- S.1193 America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act
Cosponsor · Signed on March 31, 2025 · Not yet rated
Bills and cosponsors from the congress.gov API, read October 2, 2026. A bill is rated only when a named person approves a rating that quotes its provision; none of these has one yet.
Baldwin's committees
- Senate Committee on Appropriations
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies; Department of Defense; Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies; Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies (Ranking Member); Energy and Water Development; Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries; Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy; Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness (Ranking Member); Telecommunications and Media
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Employment and Workplace Safety; Primary Health and Retirement Security
Committee seats from unitedstates/congress-legislators, read July 3, 2026.
Public lands in Wisconsin
94 federal land units lie in or reach into Wisconsin.
Listed by size; the largest 40 of 94 are named.
- Chequamegon National Forest 863,436 acres
- Nicolet National Forest 663,213 acres
- Wisconsin-Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary 616,386 acres
- Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge 72,842 acres
- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore 68,748 acres
- Fort McCoy 59,691 acres
- Necedah Wildlife Management Area 54,211 acres
- Necedah National Wildlife Refuge 44,046 acres
- Gaylord Nelson Wilderness Area 32,997 acres
- Headwaters Wilderness 22,080 acres
- Horicon National Wildlife Refuge 21,964 acres
- Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway 20,829 acres
- 09159 - Thornapple Roadless Area 9,744 acres
- Volk ANGB Defense Department · 9,480 acres
- 09177 - Le Roy Creek Roadless Area 8,133 acres
- Whisker Lake Wilderness 7,434 acres
- Hardwood Range Defense Department · 7,263 acres
- Rainbow Lake Wilderness 7,175 acres
- Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge 6,938 acres
- Argonne Experimental Forest 6,530 acres
- St. Croix County Waterfowl Production Area Fish and Wildlife Service · 6,418 acres
- 09162 - Moose Roadless Area 6,161 acres
- 09157 - Chase Creek Roadless Area 6,140 acres
- 09011 - Flynn Lake Study Area Roadless Area 5,951 acres
- Blackjack Springs Wilderness 5,917 acres
- 09164 - Tea Lake Roadless Area 5,509 acres
- 09161 - Gates Lake Roadless Area 5,255 acres
- 09182 - Pentoga Road Roadless Area 4,997 acres
- Lower Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway 4,903 acres
- 09166 - East Torch Roadless Area 4,647 acres
- Porcupine Lake Wilderness 4,306 acres
- 09154 - St. Peters Dome Roadless Area 4,002 acres
- Columbia County Waterfowl Production Area Fish and Wildlife Service · 3,893 acres
- 09012 - Round Lake Study Area Roadless Area 3,707 acres
- Northeastern States District Office Bureau of Land Management · 2,691 acres
- Winnebago County Waterfowl Production Area Of Wi Fish and Wildlife Service · 2,462 acres
- Winnebago County Waterfowl Production Area Fish and Wildlife Service · 2,426 acres
- Atkins-Hiles Swamp Research Natural Area Forest Service · 2,403 acres
- 09180 - Perch Lake Roadless Area 2,390 acres
- St Peters Dome Research Natural Area Forest Service · 2,267 acres
Drilling, mining and logging on record in Wisconsin: 3,113 timber sales (81,833 acres).
Threatened public lands in Wisconsin
- Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Developing
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 Baldwin on lands issues
PACs and other committees gave Baldwin's campaign $205,614 in the 2025-26 cycle. Across the 4 cycles on record, oil, gas, mining and timber PACs gave $23,500, and conservation PACs gave $33,748.
| Cycle | All PACs and committees | Oil and gas | Mining and coal | Timber | Conservation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | $157,581 | none | none | none | none |
| 2021-22 | $407,091 | none | none | $2,500 | none |
| 2023-24 | $3,997,797 | $2,000 | none | $19,000 | $33,748 |
| 2025-26 | $205,614 | none | none | none | none |
Itemized contributions from committees to the candidate (FEC H8WI00018, FEC S2WI00219), 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 Baldwin compares
The median senator scores 5%. Baldwin scores 89% and ranks #29 (tied) of 98.
More from Wisconsin
Sen. Ron Johnson F · Rep. Bryan Steil F · Rep. Mark Pocan A+ · Rep. Derrick Van Orden F · Rep. Gwen Moore A · Rep. Scott Fitzgerald F · Rep. Glenn Grothman F · Rep. Thomas Tiffany F · Rep. Tony Wied F
What to ask Baldwin
Washington office: 141 Hart Senate Office Building. Phone (202) 224-5653. Write to Baldwin · Official site
From Baldwin'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
How did Tammy Baldwin vote on One Big Beautiful Bill?
Tammy Baldwin 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 Tammy Baldwin up for election in 2026?
No. Tammy Baldwin's Senate seat from Wisconsin is not on the 2026 ballot. Baldwin's grade on the 19 scored Senate votes so far is a B.
What public lands are in Wisconsin?
94 federal land units lie in or reach into Wisconsin. The largest are Chequamegon National Forest (863,436 acres), Nicolet National Forest (663,213 acres) and Wisconsin-Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary (616,386 acres).