13 groups have it in their care
BLM land in Utah, 500,000 acres, managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The defenders
5 groups are on the record for Green River, in the order they carry the weight. The range says how strongly our editors, the court dockets and their own filings tie each one here. Give directly; nothing routes through us.
Leading the fight
Grassroots · Salt Lake City, UT
Sued BLM in August 2024 to void 51 reaffirmed oil and gas leases in the San Rafael Desert, including one in the heart of the Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness carved by the Green River.
39 staff + 338 volunteers92¢ of every dollar to the workFounded 1983
On the ground
Legal · Tucson, AZ
Lead plaintiff in the litigation against the Uinta Basin Railway, a project built to roughly quadruple oil drilling in the basin the Green River flows through and destroy more than 400 Utah streams.
242 staff + 19 volunteers88¢ of every dollar to the workFounded 1989
Also in the fight
Coalition · Salt Lake City, UT
Appealed Utah’s grant of 1.74 billion gallons a year of Green River water rights to the proposed Blue Castle nuclear plant near the town of Green River.
9 staff$485K revenue in 2023Founded 1995
Legal · Santa Fe, NM
Co-plaintiff in the Uinta Basin Railway challenge over the fourfold increase in basin oil production and up to ten two-mile-long oil trains a day.
41 staff + 20 volunteers78¢ of every dollar to the workFounded 1996
Advocacy · Oakland, CA
Its Utah Chapter joined the Uinta Basin Railway lawsuit over stream destruction, sage grouse habitat loss, and oil train risks tied to expanded basin drilling.
10,895 volunteers81¢ of every dollar to the workFounded 1892
On the ground in Utah
More ways in
The situation
The last free-flowing major tributary of the Colorado River winds through Desolation Canyon, Labyrinth Canyon, and some of the most spectacular river country on the continent. Oil and gas leases along its corridor threaten the water supply for 40 million Americans downstream. What happens to the Green happens to the entire West.
Source: BLM · March 1, 2025
No public comment window is open on Green River 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
Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.
Their donation page ↗SpeakCall your representativesA ready call script on Green River, plus any comment window as it opens.
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Threatened Lands Map5 groups on the record, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance with 39 staff + 338 volunteers. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.
