Your group works here? Add it. Send the page on your group’s own site that says it works on Gates of the Arctic. A person on the desk reads it before anything lists.

The situation

What’s happening to Gates of the Arctic

One of the wildest parks in the National Park System, with no roads, no trails, and no cell service. Just caribou, wolves, and 8.5 million acres of Brooks Range wilderness that has looked the same for ten thousand years. Now the administration has re-approved a 211-mile industrial gravel road that would slice through 26 miles of the national preserve, crossing 3,000 rivers and streams, damming tundra wetlands, and severing one of the longest wildlife migration corridors in the world. Eighty-nine Tribes and First Nations oppose it. The road exists to serve a copper mining district that may never turn a profit.

1980Gates of the Arctic established under ANILCA
2020BLM approves 211-mile Ambler Road route
2024Supplemental EIS finds significant impacts, road paused
2025Executive order directs reinstating the 2020 road decision
2025Interior reissues right-of-way permits for road
2026Environmental groups file lawsuit challenging approval
2026Ambler Metals initiates Arctic mine permittingMining News North · April 24, 2026

211-mile industrial road re-approved through national preserve

Source: Alaska Public Media · October 23, 2025

No public comment window is open on Gates of the Arctic 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 Gates of the Arctic

GiveGive to Alaska Community Action on Toxics

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Their site ↗SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Gates of the Arctic, plus any comment window as it opens.

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Build my lineup around Gates of the Arctic: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.

Gates of the Arctic has defenders. It needs more.

7 local groups, 10 more in the fight. 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 Gates of the Arctic, 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 listed for this place: a group is listed only under a sourced fact, and each chip opens its source. Local means headquartered in the state (the group’s own site, else the legal domicile on its 990) or the place named in its mission on its latest 990. In the fight means a case over the place naming it (the court docket), its own comment on a decision about the place (regulations.gov), an editors’ link with its source or its own page approved by a person here, or events on its own calendar held at the place. No fact, no listing. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-09-30. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.