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Shenandoah National Park
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Who’s defending Shenandoah?

2 groups likely to care, a guess from mission and footprint

National park in Virginia, 200,000 acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1935.

Likely to care

Groups likely to care about Shenandoah

These 2 groups are a guess from each group's stated mission and where it works, not a record of work on this fight. Give directly; nothing routes through us.

6 more work nearby but are not tied to Shenandoah on the record

On the ground in Virginia

Potomac Appalachian Trail ClubVirginia is one of the 4 states they work inTrailsMountain InstituteVirginia is one of the 2 states they work inCoalitionNorth Carolina Outward BoundVirginia is one of the 4 states they work inStewardshipSouthern Environmental Law CenterBased in Charlottesville, close to the groundLegal

More ways in

Friends of the Blue Ridge ParkwayVirginia is one of the 2 states they work inFriends GroupAppalachian VoicesWorking this regionGrassroots

The situation

What’s happening to Shenandoah

A hundred miles of Blue Ridge crest an hour from Washington, with Skyline Drive, black bears, and old-growth hollows. In 2026 the Park Service awarded a 15-year concession contract that for the first time hands every commercial operation in the park, lodging, food, retail, stables, and all four campgrounds the agency once ran itself, to a single private operator. Conservation advocates warn the wholesale privatization of a public park sets a national precedent, and a separate proposal by FirstEnergy would rebuild a transmission line across the park with steel towers up to 115 feet tall.

  1. 1935Shenandoah National Park established
  2. 2026Park Service selects the operator for a 15-year concession contract
  3. 2027Private concession contract takes effect
All park operations handed to a single private concessioner

Source: NPS · May 13, 2026

Transmission line rebuild threatens park scenery

Source: Piedmont Environmental Council

No public comment window is open on Shenandoah 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 Shenandoah

GiveGive to Shenandoah National Park Trust

Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.

Their donation page ↗SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Shenandoah, plus any comment window as it opens.

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

Shenandoah has defenders. It needs more.

2 more likely to care, Shenandoah National Park Trust with 12 staff + 191 volunteers. Find your way in.

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Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Shenandoah, with per-item sources. Group crews and program ratios: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, latest filed year, EINs on each group’s profile. 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 2026-09-30. Nothing on this page is pay-to-play.