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Center for Western Priorities

“To protect the West’s public lands, clean air and water, and natural resources.”

Home groundDenver, CO
Founded2012

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The work

What they do

Conservation policy organization focused on land and energy issues across the American West.

How they run

Small and lean

We don’t hold a detailed federal filing for this group. Groups this size often file the short form or run below the IRS reporting line, so there’s no budget or crew to show here, and that’s no knock: some of the sharpest local defense in the country runs this way.

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Their ground

CWP is not on our editors’ record for a threatened place. See every threatened place on one map, and who stands for each.

Where and what
Federal landsBureau of Land Management · U.S. Forest Service · National Park Service · Fish & Wildlife Service
Active inColorado · Utah · Nevada · Montana · Wyoming · New Mexico · Arizona · Idaho · Oregon
Who writes the rules where they work

Across the 9 states where they work, the congressional delegations average 49 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard

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