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Gold Butte National Monument
Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending Gold Butte?

2 groups on the record for it

National monument in Nevada, 296,937 acres, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, designated in 2016.

The groups

Who’s in the fight for Gold Butte

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 Nevada, or Gold Butte named in the mission on its latest 990.

In the fight 1

A sourced tie to Gold Butte, from anywhere.

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

The situation

What’s happening to Gold Butte

Red sandstone arches, ancient petroglyphs, and desert bighorn sheep in a landscape bordering the Grand Canyon. Gold Butte became a flashpoint when armed militants occupied nearby federal land, and its monument status remains a target for those who see any federal protection as tyranny.

  1. 2016Designated as national monument by President Obama
  2. 2017Included in monument review executive order
Monument under formal review for reduction

Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal

No public comment window is open on Gold Butte 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 Gold Butte

GiveGive to Friends of Nevada Wilderness

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

Their donation page ↗SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Gold Butte, 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 Gold Butte: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.

Gold Butte has defenders. It needs more.

1 local group, 1 more in the fight, Friends of Nevada Wilderness with 24 staff + 521 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 Gold Butte, 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 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.