Friends Group
Pinnacles National Park Foundation
A nonprofit partner of Pinnacles National Park.
Stand · Find your defenders
Who’s defending Pinnacles?
1 group has it in their care
National park in California, 26,686 acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 2013.
The defenders
The groups doing the most work here
One group is on the record for Pinnacles, each tied to it by a source our editors read, in the order they carry the weight. Give directly; nothing routes through us.
Leading the fight
18 more work nearby but are not tied to Pinnacles on the record
On the ground in California
Channel Islands Park FoundationThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupLassen AssociationThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupPoint Reyes National Seashore AssociationThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupSave the Redwoods LeagueThey work only in CaliforniaLand TrustCalifornia Wilderness CoalitionThey work only in CaliforniaGrassrootsKlamath Forest AllianceCalifornia is one of the 2 states they work inFriends Group
More ways in
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's AssociationsThey work only in CaliforniaCoalitionSierra Forest LegacyThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupVentana Wilderness AllianceThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupRecreational Boaters of CaliforniaThey work only in CaliforniaRecreationPacific Crest Trail AssociationCalifornia is one of the 3 states they work inTrailsLassen Park FoundationThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupTahoe Rim Trail AssociationCalifornia is one of the 2 states they work inTrailsGolden 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 Desert MountainsThey work only in CaliforniaFriends GroupWestern National Parks AssociationWorking this regionFriends Group
The situation
What’s happening to Pinnacles
Towering rock spires and talus caves shelter one of the last wild populations of California condors. The BLM has proposed opening more than a million acres of California public land to oil and gas drilling, including split-estate parcels where the federal government holds subsurface mineral rights directly adjacent to and beneath national and state parks. At Pinnacles, fracking operations could contaminate the aquifer that sustains the park’s ecosystem and drive condors from the cliffs they were brought back from extinction to occupy.
- 2013Redesignated from national monument to national park
BLM proposes oil and gas leasing on split-estate lands near and beneath the park
Source: KTVU / Bay Nature
No public comment window is open on Pinnacles 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 Pinnacles
GiveGive to Pinnacles National Park Foundation
Their own site; they take gifts directly. Your dollar never passes through us.
Their site ↗SpeakCall your representativesA ready call script on Pinnacles, 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 Pinnacles: the leading group here opens it, and the other seats fill from this record.
Pinnacles has defenders. It needs more.
The work is theirs. The backing is yours.