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Craters of the Moon National Monument
Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending Craters of the Moon?

11 groups have it in their care

National monument in Idaho, 753,890 acres, managed by the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management, designated in 1924.

The defenders

The groups doing the most work here

2 groups are on the record for Craters of the Moon, 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

9 more work nearby but are not tied to Craters of the Moon on the record

On the ground in Idaho

Greater Hells Canyon CouncilIdaho is one of the 2 states they work inFriends GroupPacific Northwest Trail AssociationIdaho is one of the 3 states they work inTrailsVital Ground FoundationIdaho is one of the 4 states they work inLand TrustCottonwood Environmental Law CenterIdaho is one of the 3 states they work inLegalAdvocates for the WestBased in Boise, close to the groundLegalBonneville Environmental FoundationIdaho is one of the 4 states they work inFoundation

More ways in

Continental Divide Trail CoalitionTheir work includes national parksTrailsWestern Values ProjectTheir work includes national parksWatchdogWildEarth GuardiansWorking this regionLegal

The situation

What’s happening to Craters of the Moon

So alien that NASA trained Apollo astronauts here. Over 750,000 acres of lava flows, cinder cones, and sagebrush steppe harbor species found nowhere else. Proposals to strip the expanded boundaries would hand this otherworldly landscape back to cattle and off-road vehicles.

  1. 1924Established as national monument
  2. 2000Expanded to protect surrounding lava fields
Grazing impacts on expanded monument lands

Source: Department of the Interior · January 1, 2025

Expanded boundaries under review

Source: Department of Interior

No public comment window is open on Craters of the Moon 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 Craters of the Moon

GiveGive to Idaho Conservation League

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

Their donation page ↗SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Craters of the Moon, 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 Craters of the Moon: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.

Craters of the Moon has defenders. It needs more.

2 groups on the record, Idaho Conservation League with 37 staff + 343 volunteers. 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 Craters of the Moon, 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.