Our Partners
The New Direction
for Public Lands
Partnerships
Our grassroots partners are located across the country working at the local and national level to protect public lands, waters, and wildlife.
Western
Partners
From Montana to New Mexico, California to Washington, and everywhere in-between, our partners are working to phase out commercial extraction on public lands and advocate for a wilder future for our shared heritage. Our partners include…
Eastern
Partners
From New England to the Southeast, and everywhere between, our partners are working to phase out commercial extraction on public lands and advocate for a wilder future for our shared heritage. Our partners include…
Our Partner Organizations
What Our Partners & Supporters
Are Saying
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We have fought for decades to stave off the excesses of commercial and industry influences on our public lands within the current system and have failed. These failures have not come from lack of trying, but rather because the system is rigged against us and the natural world. Ecosystems and species are on the brink and they are crying out. The New Direction for Public Lands gives me hope and a way to direct my anger and despair into action and resolve. We demand radical change in Congress to meet the moment. Giving up on planetary life is not an option."
Adam Bronstein
Western Watersheds Project
Oregon
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Public lands are the one place we all own together. A new direction means truly protecting what's left, giving lands scarred by extraction room to heal, and making sure future generations inherit something wilder than we did.”
Jennifer Mamola
John Muir Project
California and DC
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As a long-time wilderness advocate and explorer, I am delighted to see the New Direction for Public Lands emerging. The New Direction can be the strong and growing voice we've long needed to phase out commercial exploitation of public lands, close unneeded roads that fragment the backcountry, and provide the habitat sensitive and wide-ranging species — including top carnivores like Wolf and Puma—need to thrive. The New Direction will inspire a grassroots movement to force the land and wildlife management agencies to give Forever Wild protection to our public lands for the benefit of all native species and for climate stabilization and quiet recreation.”
John Davis
The Rewilding Institute
New York
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This is the conservation movement’s version of Project 2025: a radical yet ultimately achievable plan to overhaul policy and agency directives to protect the sacred natural world we all depend on.”
Max Wilbert
Fertile Ground Conservancy
Oregon
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A new direction for public lands means protecting our shared wild places as enduring sources of renewal, resilience, and resistance — where all wildlife and people can flourish.”
Michelle Lute, PhD
Wildlife for All
New Mexico
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Our public lands system is one of America's great achievements, and an inspiration around the world. It is a trust we must keep for future generations- the protection of the wild for its own sake.”
Davis Mounger
Tennessee Heartwood
Tennessee
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While almost all of Congress is opposed to selling off public lands, far too many will vote to sell out public lands by allowing or requiring harmful activities and/or bad management. While the color doesn’t change on the map, the lands are effectively industrialized for private profit. The US Constitution vests all power over the nation’s public lands with Congress. It’s time to hold members of Congress and US senators directly accountable to future generations. Whether the elected officials are remembered with admiration or disdain will be up to them.”
Andy Kerr
The Larch Company
Maine
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The ecosystems we protect are irreplaceable. Using statutory options to protect U.S. trust lands is an imperative. That means enforcing environmental laws and designating new protected areas under the Organic Act and the Wilderness Act. It also means legislatively reforming federal land management agencies. The internal agendas and budgetary desires of the US Forest Service and BLM focus on resource extraction to the detriment of natural values. Ultimately, law is all we have to protect public land.”
Ric Bailey
Methow Forest Forum
Washington
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We don't need more management that lines corporate pockets. We need a future where the land heals and wild animals can survive. New Direction gives us a real goal where we, the public who love these lands, the peace & happiness on them and the animals that live on them have the chance to stop losing ground and start winning for the wild.”
Theresa J Barbour
Oregon Wild Horse Organization
Oregon
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If we’re truly serious about confronting the eco crisis, we must prioritize genuinely and permanently protecting public lands.”
Josh Schlossberg
Eco-Integrity Alliance
Colorado
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As we put the broken pieces of the agencies that manage our parks and public lands back together, we have an opportunity to re-examine our entire relationship with the land we live on. The structural flaws inherent in having the Forest Service housed in the Department of Agriculture, separate from all the other land management agencies that make up the Department of the Interior, is but one part of the problem that allows industrial extraction on our public lands to run roughshod over these places we love. This is America's opportunity to transform our government agencies into true stewards of the land as we purge our government of the corruption that corporate interests bring, and restore ecological science and public accountability to the heart of the mission of land management in our country.”
Matt Peters
Heartwood
Pennsylvania
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We at Umpqua Watersheds are very interested in more wilderness and national parks. Our small organization has been working on wilderness in our watersheds. We support changing the dynamic of profiting corporations running the degradation of natural resources. We support lobbying and legislative action. For me the New Direction means hope.”
Diana Pace
Umpqua Watersheds
Oregon
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Our Public Lands are my touchstone. I have inhabited them my whole life: exploring nature’s secrets as a child, learning about varied ecosystems from smart scientists as an adult and then teaching nature awareness back to children. I have always been sustained and inspired by nature’s complexity and beauty. As humans, we need Public Lands to connect and recharge. Furthermore, it is our responsibility to protect these special places for all the other species who call them home. It has been tragic witnessing the rampant level of misuse (in the name of “multiple use”) leveled against our Public lands by irresponsible managers and the greedy special interests that control them. I am very hopeful that New Directions will radically shift this dysfunctional pattern to a new way of living with nature.”
Susan Prince
Oregon
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Can you imagine a day when laws are passed by Congress that take us far down the path towards resolving the climate and biodiversity crises? We must! Step one is proposing visionary legislation that spells out exactly what is needed, which is what New Directions For Public Lands means to me. Empowering others to act won't happen by proposing status quo "solutions" that feed on public fears and ignorance in order to maintain political connections with the rich and powerful who exploit and destroy our natural world. New Directions envisions and exemplifies genuine solutions that inspire people to act.”
Jeff Juel
Friends of the Clearwater
Montana
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A new direction for public lands means recognizing that the future of wild horses, wildlife, and healthy landscapes is interconnected, and our work must be, too. At American Wild Horse Conservation, we believe communicating, collaborating, and solving problems across the whole system is just as essential as the work each organization does within its own mission. This coalition gives us an opportunity to bring our knowledge and commitment together, address the forces driving these challenges, and build lasting solutions. I’m hopeful about what we can accomplish together for the lands and wild lives entrusted to our care.”
Patricia Miller
American Wild Horse Conservation
Nevada