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Gates of the Arctic (Ambler Road)
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Who’s defending Gates of the Arctic?

16 groups have it in their care

National park in Alaska, 8.47M acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1980.

The defenders

The groups doing the most work here

12 groups are on the record for Gates of the Arctic, each tied to it by a source our editors read, in the order they carry the weight. Give directly; nothing routes through us.

On the ground

Also in the fight

13 more work nearby but are not tied to Gates of the Arctic on the record

On the ground in Alaska

Alaska GeographicThey work only in AlaskaFriends GroupKachemak Heritage Land TrustThey work only in AlaskaLand TrustDenali Education CenterThey work only in AlaskaFriends GroupKenai Watershed ForumThey work only in AlaskaFriends GroupSoutheast Alaska Conservation CouncilThey work only in AlaskaCoalitionGwich'in Steering CommitteeThey work only in AlaskaTribal

The national muscle

Sierra ClubPlaintiff in Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Trump, challenging the reinstated Ambler road permitsAdvocacyWinter Wildlands AlliancePlaintiff in the federal litigation over the Ambler road permitsRecreationEarthworksMining watchdog and plaintiff in the Ambler road litigationWatchdogNational Audubon SocietyAudubon Alaska welcomed BLM's April 2024 choice of no Ambler road as the best path for the Brooks RangeAdvocacyTheodore Roosevelt Conservation PartnershipWelcomed BLM's 2024 denial of the Ambler road, which the Hunters & Anglers for the Brooks Range coalition had urgedAdvocacy

More ways in

NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School)Working this regionStewardshipFriends of Alaska National Wildlife RefugesThey work only in AlaskaFriends Group

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 8.4 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.

  1. 1980Gates of the Arctic established under ANILCA
  2. 2020BLM approves 211-mile Ambler Road route
  3. 2024Supplemental EIS finds significant impacts, road paused
  4. 2025Executive order directs reinstating the 2020 road decision
  5. 2025Interior reissues right-of-way permits for road
  6. 2026Environmental groups file lawsuit challenging approval
  7. 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

Comment window openArmy Corps opens review of the first mine the Ambler Road would serveCloses November 2, 2026

Your move

How to stand for Gates of the Arctic

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

Gates of the Arctic has defenders. It needs more.

The work is theirs. The backing is yours.

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Sources and methodThe 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 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 2026-09-30. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.