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Canyonlands National Park
Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending the Canyonlands?

3 groups on the record for it

National park in Utah, 337,598 acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1964.

The groups

Who’s in the fight for the Canyonlands

Every group here is listed for a sourced fact, and each fact opens its source. Give directly; no gift routes through this site.

In the fight 1

A sourced tie to the Canyonlands, from anywhere.

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

The situation

What’s happening to Canyonlands

Where the Green and Colorado Rivers carve the earth into a labyrinth of stone so vast you can stand on the rim and see nothing made by human hands. Potash mining on its doorstep is drawing down the water table, and oil and gas leases surround the park on every side. The desert is fragile. The industry is not.

  1. 1964Established as national park
Potash mining threatens park water table

Source: KSL TV

No public comment window is open on Canyonlands 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.

In the courts

The cases over this place

The dockets we track that name Canyonlands directly. Active first.

ClosedOregon Natural Desert Association v. RoseNinth Circuit · filed 2018 · Docket ↗

Your move

How to stand for the Canyonlands

GiveGive to Canyonlands Natural History Association

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

Their donation page ↗SpeakCall your representatives

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

Public Lands Action NetworkFollowWatch the map

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

Threatened Lands Map

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

Canyonlands has defenders. It needs more.

2 local groups, 1 more in the fight, Canyonlands Natural History Association with 53 staff. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.

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Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Canyonlands, with per-item sources. Court cases: CourtListener dockets in the MTJP litigation database (1 naming this place). 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 2026-11-01. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.