Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending Agua Fria?

1 group has it in their care

National monument in Arizona, 71,100 acres, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, designated in 2000.

The defenders

The groups doing the most work here

One group is on the record for Agua Fria, each tied to it by a source our editors read, in the order they carry the weight. Give directly; nothing routes through us.

Also in the fight

Advocacy · Durango, CO

Conservation Lands Foundation

Backs Friends of the Agua Fria National Monument through its Friends Grassroots Network with grants, capacity building, and field support, dating to its inaugural 2008 grant round.

26 staff79¢ to the workFounded 2007

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11 more work nearby but are not tied to Agua Fria on the record

On the ground in Arizona

Arizona Trail AssociationThey work only in ArizonaTrails Petrified Forest Museum AssociationThey work only in ArizonaFriends Group Saguaro National Park TrustThey work only in ArizonaFriends Group Kaibab National Forest FriendsThey work only in ArizonaFriends Group Sonoran InstituteArizona is one of the 4 states they work inCoalition Glen Canyon InstituteArizona is one of the 2 states they work inFriends Group

More ways in

Southwest Conservation CorpsArizona is one of the 4 states they work inStewardship Western National Parks AssociationBased in Tucson, close to the groundFriends Group Glen Canyon ConservancyArizona is one of the 2 states they work inFriends Group NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School)Their work includes national parksStewardship WildEarth GuardiansWorking this regionLegal

The situation

What’s happening to Agua Fria

Over 450 prehistoric sites on a mesa-top landscape north of Phoenix, including major pueblo ruins that tell the story of communities that thrived here for centuries. Phoenix sprawl squeezes tighter every year around a monument that was already too small to protect what it was meant to save.

2000Designated as national monument

Urban sprawl encroaching on monument

Source: Headwaters Economics

No public comment window is open on Agua Fria right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.

Your move

How to stand for Agua Fria

GiveGive to Conservation Lands Foundation

Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.

Their donation page ↗SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Agua Fria, plus any comment window as it opens.

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Every threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.

Threatened Lands Map

Build my lineup around Agua Fria: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.

Agua Fria has defenders. It needs more.

1 group on the record, Conservation Lands Foundation with 26 staff. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.

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Sources and method

The situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Agua Fria, with per-item sources. Group crews and program ratios: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, latest filed year, EINs on each group’s profile. Which groups are on the record for this place: MTJP editors tie a group to a fight only with a source link they have read, one link at a time. A group without one is shown as likely to care, a guess from the federal court record and the group’s own mission and footprint. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-10-09. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.