Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending Assateague Island?

National park in Maryland, 41,311 acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1965.

The groups

No group is listed for Assateague Island yet

A group is listed here only with a source that ties it to Assateague Island: a court case, its own comment to the agency, its own page, an event on its calendar. None is held yet. That is not the same as nobody fighting.

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

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The situation

What’s happening to Assateague Island

Wild horses, pristine beaches, and a barrier island migrating westward as the sea rises. Assateague is a landscape in constant motion, and budget cuts are gutting the staff that monitors its transformation. Without the science NPS provides, this island becomes another casualty of the assumption that wild places take care of themselves.

1965Established as national seashore

Budget cuts reduce island management capacity

Source: Axios

No public comment window is open on Assateague Island 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 Assateague Island

SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Assateague Island, plus any comment window as it opens.

Public Lands Action Network FollowWatch the map

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

Threatened Lands Map

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

Assateague Island needs groups in the fight.

The work is theirs. The backing is yours.

Every place, state and species

Sources and method

The situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Assateague Island, with per-item sources. 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 2026-11-01. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.