5 groups have it in their care
BLM land in Alaska, 3.65M acres, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, designated in 1923.
The defenders
5 groups are on the record for NPR-A Teshekpuk Lake Special Area, 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
Advocacy · Washington, DC
Treats the 3.65 million acre Teshekpuk Lake wetlands as a defining priority, drove thousands of public comments for stronger NPR-A Special Area protections, and opposed the 2025 congressional attempt to overturn them.
21 staff + 850 volunteers70¢ to the workFounded 1993
Legal · San Francisco, CA
Counsel in back to back federal suits challenging the 2025 approval of ConocoPhillips exploration drilling and the 2026 lease sale that offered nearly all of the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area.
698 staff + 33 volunteers81¢ to the workFounded 1971
Advocacy · New York, NY
Rallied nearly 20,000 supporters urging Interior to keep the 2024 NPR-A rule after decades of work defending Teshekpuk Lake, a globally significant bird area with 600,000 nesting shorebirds.
1,185 staff + 7,500 volunteers80¢ to the workFounded 1905
Also in the fight
Legal · Tucson, AZ
Plaintiff in both the 2025 challenge to Western Arctic exploration drilling and the 2026 suit against the lease sale covering the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area.
242 staff + 19 volunteers88¢ to the workFounded 1989
Advocacy · Washington, DC
Plaintiff in the 2025 suit against ConocoPhillips’ seismic and exploration drilling program that pushes industrialization into the Teshekpuk Lake and Colville River Special Areas.
178 staff + 32 volunteers75¢ to the workFounded 1935
On the ground in Alaska
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The situation
The calving ground for the Teshekpuk caribou herd and a staging area for hundreds of thousands of migratory birds from six continents. Protections that kept drilling at bay have been rolled back, and the largest NPR-A lease sale in history just handed 1.33 million acres to eleven oil companies for $164.7 million. Habitat that took 10,000 years to form on thawing permafrost is now slated for industrial development.
Source: Earthjustice
Source: Alaska Beacon
No public comment window is open on NPR-A Teshekpuk Lake Special Area 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.
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Threatened Lands MapBuild my lineup around NPR-A Teshekpuk Lake Special Area: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.
5 groups on the record, Alaska Wilderness League with 21 staff + 850 volunteers. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.
