Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending the Mojave?

National park in California, 1.55M acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1994.

The groups

No group is listed for Mojave yet

A group is listed here only with a source that ties it to the Mojave: a court case, its own comment to the agency, its own page, an event on its calendar. None is held yet. That is not the same as nobody fighting.

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

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The situation

What’s happening to Mojave

Joshua tree forests, volcanic cinder cones, and 1.5 million acres of remote Mojave desert that the mining industry has never stopped trying to crack open. The Preserve was nearly killed in committee before it was born. Now rare earth mineral proposals would industrialize one of the last wild landscapes in Southern California.

1994Established under California Desert Protection Act
2025Interior clears the Colosseum mine to keep operating under its existing planBLM · April 8, 2025

Rare earth mining exploration proposals

Source: National Parks Traveler

No public comment window is open on Mojave 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 the Mojave

SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Mojave, plus any comment window as it opens.

Public Lands Action Network FollowWatch the map

Every threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.

Threatened Lands Map

Build my lineup around Mojave: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.

Mojave needs groups in the fight.

The work is theirs. The backing is yours.

Every place, state and species

Sources and method

The situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Mojave, with per-item sources. 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 2026-10-05. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.