4 groups have it in their care
National monument in New Mexico, 496,330 acres, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, designated in 2014.
The defenders
4 groups are on the record for Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, 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
Grassroots · Albuquerque, NM
Led the community campaign for the 2014 designation and executive director Mark Allison spoke at the June 2025 Las Cruces rally against monument reductions and the Senate public land sell-off provisions.
40 staff + 324 volunteers83¢ to the workFounded 1997
Also in the fight
Advocacy · Durango, CO
Associate program director Romir Lahiri spoke at the June 2025 defense rally, and the foundation backs the monument’s friends group through its Friends Grassroots Network.
26 staff79¢ to the workFounded 2007
Advocacy · Washington, DC
New Mexico program manager Maude Dinan joined the June 2025 rally at the monument urging the administration to keep protections intact.
217 staff + 900 volunteers78¢ to the workFounded 1919
Advocacy · Washington, DC
Backed the designation campaign and lists protecting the monument’s irreplaceable archaeological sites as a priority of its New Mexico program.
178 staff + 32 volunteers75¢ to the workFounded 1935
On the ground in New Mexico
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The situation
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.
Source: Source New Mexico
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
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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: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.
4 groups on the record, New Mexico Wild with 40 staff + 324 volunteers. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.
