Stand · 260 groups defending America’s public lands

Who’s defending your public lands?

Name a park, a river, a species, or your state. STAND shows you the groups on the record for it, from the national legal teams to the friends group down the street, and how to stand with them.

260organizations on the record

46live federal cases

146places under threat ↓

The fights

Start with a place you love

146 places are under threat right now. Each one has its own page: what’s happening to it, who’s on the record defending it, and how to stand with them.

Also under threat: Blue Mountains National Forests, Oak Flat / Chi'chil Bildagoteel, Book Cliffs, American Prairie, Adobe Town WSA, Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni National Monument, Chuckwalla National Monument, Colorado BLM Lease Sale, Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, Los Padres National Forest, Western Oregon O&C Lands, Dinosaur National Monument, Everglades National Park, Sattitla Highlands National Monument

All 146 places, the fifty states and the wildlife

The living map

Find them on the land

Every place under threat, sized by how many groups are on the record for it. Open one to see who’s defending it, or switch the map to where the groups are based.

In federal courtCritical threatThreat developing or on watchBigger dot, more groups on the record

Off the map: Tongass National Forest, Gates of the Arctic (Ambler Road), Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, NPR-A Teshekpuk Lake Special Area, Dalton Corridor / D-1 Lands, Mariana Trench & Rose Atoll Marine Monuments, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, Pacific Remote Islands Marine NM, American Samoa Outer Continental Shelf, Bristol Bay Watershed, Chugach National Forest, Greens Creek Mine / Admiralty Island NM, Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, Northern Mariana Islands Outer Continental Shelf, Twin Mountain II Timber Sale (Tongass)

The matchmaker

Don’t know where to start? We’ll introduce you.

Four answers. The lineup rebuilds with each one: your best fit, a group close to home, a grassroots pick, and whoever’s in federal court right now.

Four groups to start with

One from each seat. Answer the four questions and it rebuilds around you.

A strong place to start
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Grassroots · Salt Lake City, UT
To preserve outstanding wilderness at the heart of the Colorado Plateau.
4 live federal cases · $5.3M revenue in 2023 · Founded 1983
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On the ground, regional
Alaska Wilderness League
Advocacy · Washington, DC
To galvanize support for Alaska’s wild lands and waters.
2 live federal cases · $4.0M revenue in 2023 · Founded 1993
Meet them Give directly
Grassroots, under $5M a year
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers
Advocacy · Missoula, MT
To ensure North America’s outdoor heritage of hunting and fishing in wild public lands and waters.
$4.9M revenue in 2023 · Founded 2004
Meet them Give directly
In federal court now
Cascadia Wildlands
Grassroots · Eugene, OR
To defend and restore Cascadia’s wild ecosystems.
3 live federal cases · $1.0M revenue in 2024 · Founded 1997
Meet them Their site

Also a strong fit: California Wilderness Coalition, Conservation Lands Foundation, Idaho Conservation League, New Mexico Wild, Oregon Wild, Outdoor Alliance

Keep this lineup. We’ll tell you when something happens to your places or your groups.

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The whole network

260 groups, standing by

The heavyweights, the litigators, the land trusts, and the friends group that knows your trailhead by name. Search them, filter them, meet them. More Than Just Parks, which publishes STAND, is on the map but not ranked in its own directory.

The national heavyweights over $100 million a year or 500 staff