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Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending the Mojave?

National park in California, 1.6M acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1994.

The defenders

Nobody has claimed this fight yet

No group in our directory carries the Mojave in its work yet. That is not the same as nobody fighting: if you know the group that belongs here, tell us and our editors will look at it.

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18 more work nearby but are not tied to Mojave on the record

On the ground in California

Save the Redwoods LeagueThey work only in CaliforniaLand TrustCalifornia Wilderness CoalitionThey work only in CaliforniaGrassrootsChannel Islands Park FoundationThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupKlamath Forest AllianceCalifornia is one of the 2 states they work inFriends GroupLassen AssociationThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupSierra Forest LegacyThey work only in CaliforniaFriends Group

More ways in

Ventana Wilderness AllianceThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupPoint Reyes National Seashore AssociationThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupRecreational Boaters of CaliforniaThey work only in CaliforniaRecreationPacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's AssociationsThey work only in CaliforniaCoalitionPacific Crest Trail AssociationCalifornia is one of the 3 states they work inTrailsTahoe Rim Trail AssociationCalifornia is one of the 2 states they work inTrailsFriends of the Desert MountainsThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupGolden Gate National Parks ConservancyThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupRedwood Parks ConservancyThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupSequoia Parks ConservancyThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupFriends of the InyoThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupWestern National Parks AssociationWorking this regionFriends Group

The situation

What’s happening to Mojave

Joshua tree forests, volcanic cinder cones, and 1.6 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.

  1. 1994Established under California Desert Protection Act
  2. 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 NetworkFollowWatch the map

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

Threatened Lands Map

Build my lineup around Mojave: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.

Mojave has defenders. It needs more.

The work is theirs. The backing is yours.

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Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Mojave, with per-item sources. Which groups are on the record for this place: MTJP editors tie a group to a fight only with a source link they have read, one link at a time. A group without one is shown as likely to care, a guess from the federal court record and the group’s own mission and footprint. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-10-05. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.