Grassroots · Albuquerque, NM
New Mexico Wild
40 staff + 324 volunteers83¢ to the workFounded 1997
Stand · Find your defenders
Who’s defending Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks?
4 groups on the record for itNational monument in New Mexico, 496,330 acres, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, designated in 2014.
The groups
Who’s in the fight for Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks
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 New Mexico, or Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks named in the mission on its latest 990.
In the fight 3
A sourced tie to Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, from anywhere.
Advocacy · Durango, CO
Conservation Lands Foundation
26 staff79¢ to the workFounded 2007
Advocacy · Washington, DC
National Parks Conservation Association
217 staff + 900 volunteers78¢ to the workFounded 1919
Advocacy · Washington, DC
The Wilderness Society
178 staff + 32 volunteers75¢ to the workFounded 1935
Your group works here? Add it. Send the page on your group’s own site that says it works on Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks. A person on the desk reads it before anything lists.
The situation
What’s happening to Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks
Jagged granite spires rise above the Chihuahuan Desert like a cathedral skyline. Nearly half a million acres of archaeological sites, rare wildlife, and landscapes sacred to the Pueblo and Apache peoples. The boundary reduction proposal would carve corridors for border infrastructure and drilling through all of it.
- 2014Designated as national monument by President Obama
- 2017Included in monument review executive order
Boundary reduction under consideration
Source: Source New Mexico
Oil and gas interest in adjacent areas
Source: Public News Service
No public comment window is open on Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks 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 Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks
GiveGive to New Mexico Wild
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Their site ↗SpeakCall your representativesA ready call script on Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, plus any comment window as it opens.
Public Lands Action NetworkFollowWatch the mapEvery threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.
Threatened Lands MapBuild my lineup around Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks has defenders. It needs more.
1 local group, 3 more in the fight, New Mexico Wild with 40 staff + 324 volunteers. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.