Advocacy · Washington, DC
National Parks Conservation Association
Runs a dedicated Dinosaur campaign pressing BLM to weigh health and landscape harms before leasing in the Uinta Basin
217 staff + 900 volunteers78¢ to the workFounded 1919
Stand · Find your defenders
Who’s defending Dinosaur?
4 groups have it in their care
National monument in Colorado / Utah, 210,844 acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1915.
The defenders
The groups doing the most work here
4 groups are on the record for Dinosaur, 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
Legal · Tucson, AZ
Center for Biological Diversity
Led the coalition suit against the Uinta Basin Railway, whose oil trains would run the river corridors below the monument
242 staff + 19 volunteers88¢ to the workFounded 1989
Also in the fight
Legal · Santa Fe, NM
WildEarth Guardians
Named petitioner against the Uinta Basin Railway over habitat destruction in the basin
41 staff + 20 volunteers78¢ to the workFounded 1996
Advocacy · Oakland, CA
Sierra Club
Named petitioner in the Uinta Basin Railway litigation
10,895 volunteers81¢ to the workFounded 1892
18 more work nearby but are not tied to Dinosaur on the record
On the ground in Colorado and Utah
Volunteers for Outdoor ColoradoThey work only in ColoradoStewardshipBlack Canyon Audubon SocietyThey work only in ColoradoFriends GroupConservation Lands FoundationThey work only in ColoradoAdvocacyColorado Mountain ClubThey work only in ColoradoRecreationGlen Canyon InstituteUtah is one of the 2 states they work inFriends GroupColorado Fourteeners InitiativeThey work only in ColoradoStewardship
More ways in
Colorado Wild Public LandsThey work only in ColoradoCoalitionSan Juan Mountains AssociationThey work only in ColoradoFriends GroupSan Juan Citizens AllianceColorado is one of the 2 states they work inCoalitionUtah Diné BikéyahThey work only in UtahTribalMesa Verde FoundationThey work only in ColoradoFriends GroupRocky Mountain WildThey work only in ColoradoLegalUtah Rivers CouncilThey work only in UtahCoalitionSouthern Utah Wilderness AllianceThey work only in UtahGrassrootsThe Cloud FoundationThey work only in ColoradoAdvocacyHigh Country NewsThey work only in ColoradoMediaSouthwest Conservation CorpsColorado is one of the 4 states they work inStewardshipContinental Divide Trail CoalitionBased in Golden, close to the groundTrails
The situation
What’s happening to Dinosaur
The BLM is preparing to auction oil and gas leases on more than 54,000 acres of public land surrounding Dinosaur National Monument in its Q2 2026 Utah lease sale. The parcels sit in the Uinta Basin, where decades of drilling have already produced air quality comparable to Los Angeles on bad days. Conservation groups have challenged prior lease sales near the monument, and a coalition is now urging BLM to halt the latest round. The monument itself, a landscape of deep river canyons and some of the richest fossil beds in North America, would be flanked by industrial development on multiple sides.
- 1915Designated as national monument by President Wilson
- 2026Conservation coalition urges BLM to halt lease saleNational Parks Conservation Association · January 15, 2026
One Big Beautiful Bill expands mandatory leasing
Source: NPCA · July 4, 2025
No public comment window is open on Dinosaur 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 Dinosaur
GiveGive to National Parks Conservation Association
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Their donation page ↗SpeakCall your representativesA ready call script on Dinosaur, plus any comment window as it opens.
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Threatened Lands MapBuild my lineup around Dinosaur: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.
Dinosaur has defenders. It needs more.
4 groups on the record, National Parks Conservation Association with 217 staff + 900 volunteers. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.