Basin and Range National Monument
Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending the Basin and Range?

9 groups have it in their care

National monument in Nevada, 704,000 acres, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, designated in 2015.

The defenders

The groups doing the most work here

2 groups are on the record for Basin and Range, 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

7 more work nearby but are not tied to Basin and Range on the record

The situation

What’s happening to Basin and Range

Home to Michael Heizer’s “City,” the largest contemporary artwork on Earth, 50 years in the making, built in a landscape so vast it redefines your sense of scale. Basin and Range is on the monument review list. Its future depends on whether anyone is paying attention.

  1. 2015Designated as national monument
Monument under review

Source: The Columbian

No public comment window is open on Basin and Range 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 the Basin and Range

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

Basin and Range has defenders. It needs more.

2 groups on the record, Friends of Nevada Wilderness with 24 staff + 521 volunteers. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.

Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Basin and Range, 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 2026-10-03. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.