Friends Group · Death Valley, CA
Stand · Find your defenders
Who’s defending Death Valley?
1 group on the record for itNational park in California, 3.41M acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1994.
The groups
Who’s in the fight for Death Valley
Every group here is listed for a sourced fact, and each fact opens its source. Give directly; no gift routes through this site.
Local 1
Headquartered in California, or Death Valley named in the mission on its latest 990.
Your group works here? Add it. Send the page on your group’s own site that says it works on Death Valley. A person on the desk reads it before anything lists.
The situation
What’s happening to Death Valley
Salt flats, volcanic craters, sand dunes, and the lowest point in North America, all within the largest national park outside Alaska. In 2024 hundreds of new mining claims were staked on about 8,000 acres beside the park, above the groundwater that feeds the springs at Furnace Creek.
- 1994Upgraded from monument to national park under CDPA
Hundreds of new mining claims staked beside the park
Source: Center for Biological Diversity
No public comment window is open on Death Valley 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 Death Valley
GiveGive to Death Valley Conservancy
Their own site; they take gifts directly. Your dollar never passes through us.
Their site ↗SpeakCall your representativesA ready call script on Death Valley, plus any comment window as it opens.
Public Lands Action NetworkFollowWatch the mapEvery threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.
Threatened Lands MapBuild my lineup around Death Valley: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.
Death Valley has defenders. It needs more.
The work is theirs. The backing is yours.