Our Advocacy

• Advocacy in Action Protect Eagle Mountain from Dangerous Development Proposals Just outside the boundary of Joshua Tree National Park, the region known as Eagle Mountain has been at the center of controversy over inappropriate, harmful development proposals for years. Incorporating these lands into the park could help protect them from the latest threat, the Eagle Crest Pumped Storage Project. This massive energy development stands to pump millions of gallons of water from the fragile desert aquifer in and around the park.
• Advocacy in Action Strengthening Clean Air Protections for Parks Air pollution is among the most serious threats facing national parks, affecting visitor health, compromising scenic vistas and altering the climate. A proposed revision to the rule intended to restore national park air could diminish these threats.
• Advocacy in Action Wolves at Isle Royale: An Island Dilemma Wolves at Isle Royale National Park are in decline. Only two wolves remain on the island, fostering a boom in the native moose population, taxing the park’s ecosystem and threatening the long-term survival of both the moose and the park. The National Park Service must reintroduce wolves to Isle Royale to support a balanced and sustainable ecosystem.
• Advocacy in Action Yellowstone's Grizzly Bears Need Strong Protections to Thrive The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to remove Yellowstone area grizzly bears from the Endangered Species List. These bears live in the 18-million-acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, including Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Currently, the proposed plan does not do enough to ensure their long-term conservation.
• Advocacy in Action Protecting Golden Gate's Fragile Resources through the Proposed Dog Rule The proposed dog rule for Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) aims to balance resource protection with the many forms of recreation enjoyed at the second most visited national park site.
• Advocacy in Action Don’t Put Endangered Wildlife at Risk to Drill Big Cypress A private energy development company wants to conduct seismic testing on 70,000 acres within Big Cypress National Preserve for oil and gas development — paving the way for drilling to begin on an unprecedented scale on national park land.
• Parks in Peril Protect Mojave from the Soda Mountain Solar Project On April 5, 2016, the Department of the Interior approved the Soda Mountain Solar Project, a proposed industrial-scale renewable energy development that would be constructed less than one mile from the boundary of Mojave National Preserve, the third-largest national park unit in the lower 48 states. It would be one of the closest renewable energy projects to a national park site in the entire southwestern United States.
• Advocacy in Action Help Preserve Pivotal Sites from America’s Civil Rights History In the 1960s, Birmingham, Alabama, was one of the most segregated places in the United States. Nonviolent protesters suffered brutal mistreatment and ultimately changed the course of history. Now, we can recognize this critical chapter in the struggle for equality with a new national park site.
• Victory Grand Canyon Protected from Threat of Mega-Development You helped to stop a massive development proposed just outside the boundary of Grand Canyon National Park that had the Park Service and park supporters worried about negative effects on the park—especially the dozens of fragile creeks, springs, and seeps that rely on underground water sources the development could have legally tapped.
• Victory Three New National Monuments Designated in the California Desert President Obama protected some of our country’s most spectacular and unique desert lands and created our 410th national park site by designating three national new national monuments on Friday, February 12: Castle Mountains, Mojave Trails, and Sand to Snow.
• Advocacy in Action Our Southwestern National Parks Deserve Cleaner Air Pollution from two of Utah’s oldest, dirtiest coal-fired power plants – Rocky Mountain Power’s Hunter and Huntington facilities – affects the air in eight of the Southwest’s national parks: Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Arches, Canyonlands, Mesa Verde, and Black Canyon of the Gunnison. For years, Utah has refused to reduce this pollution by requiring the best controls found at many other coal plants throughout the West.
• Victory Reauthorize Funding for National Park Transportation As federal facilities, the transportation facilities within national parks are paid for through federal gas tax dollars in the Highway Trust Fund. A lack of sufficient funding has impeded ongoing and future transportation projects across the country and in our national parks--but that's starting to change.
• Advocacy in Action Commercial Spaceports Could Threaten Canaveral and Cumberland Island As the desire to make space travel more accessible increases, so does the search for locations to build commercial spaceports. Unfortunately some of the proposed sites are located within a few miles of national seashores, which draw visitors and wildlife to their pristine and secluded beaches and marshes.
• Advocacy in Action Stop the Ambler Mining Road A proposed 220-mile industrial access road would cross over one hundred rivers and streams, interfere with subsistence lifestyles of rural Alaskans, and travel into Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Sound like a bad idea? We think so, too.
• Advocacy in Action Parks in Peril The crown jewels of our National Park System are at a crossroads. And it is up to each of us to determine which path they take.
• Parks in Peril Return Clean Air to Yosemite Yosemite National Park is supposed to provide its millions of visitors clean air to breathe and spectacular views that extend for miles. The air in this park is even protected by law.
• Parks in Peril Protect Scenic Vistas at Arches National Park What if you hiked all the way to Delicate Arch at Arches National Park and gazed out to see … oil pumps?
• Parks in Peril Save Grand Teton's Stunning Views Stunning views of the Grand Teton mountain range, on lands rich with wildlife … or mansions? Which would you prefer to see when visiting Grand Teton National Park?
• Victory Drawing the Line: Stopping Alaska’s War on Wolves and Bears Good news! In October 2015, the National Park Service finalized regulations which prohibit “predator control” tactics and go a long way toward rectifying this conflict.
• Parks in Peril Protect Glacier National Park's Wild Borderland The oil and gas industry has its sights set on Glacier National Park’s southeastern boundary, a remote region known as the Badger-Two Medicine–home to grizzly bears and mountain lions, wolves and wolverines, vast herds of elk and mountain goats.
• Advocacy in Action Noisy Helicopter Training and National Parks Don't Mix Noisy helicopters and landing zones do not belong next door to our national parks, especially one with grizzly habitat and treasured wilderness. The Army has alternatives for training--and they use them now--but there is only one North Cascades National Park.
• Advocacy in Action Fragile Treasures Threatened in Chaco Culture National Historical Park The growing demand for oil and gas in northwestern New Mexico has the potential to impact the cultural and natural resources of Chaco Culture National Historical Park--including the quality of its world-renowned night skies. Flaring of natural gas and an increase in intensive artificial lighting from construction activities, vehicle traffic, and operation of support facilities can all affect the quality of the night skies both at the park’s higher elevations and inside the historic canyon.
• Advocacy in Action Reauthorize the Land & Water Conservation Fund Authorization for the revenue stream for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) expired at the end of Fiscal Year 2015. That financing – diverted from a small portion of offshore drilling receipts – will no longer be deposited into a trust fund that Congress intended to protect America’s treasures when it established the program in 1964.
• Advocacy in Action Jamaica Bay Advocates Jamaica Bay is an essential asset of New York City and is vital to surrounding residents and wildlife species. The health of the bay relies on the voices of Jamaica Bay Advocates, JBA. JBA engages hundreds of individuals, businesses, and organizations to coalesce a unified voice representing millions of New Yorkers and Americans who love and support Gateway National Recreation Area.

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