Call to Action
Support the fight against Trump’s last minute land grabs! Donate to stop the theft of public lands, the destruction of sacred Native lands and desecration of animal habitats! Here are some of the groups that we know are playing a key role in these fights. Please support one or more of them NOW! (All donations are tax deductible.)
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Natural Resources Defense Council
Center for Biological Diversity
Living Rivers
Native American Rights Fund
Defenders of Wildlife
The Land Grab is an Environmental and Cultural Outrage
Donald Trump continues to rage and scheme to cancel the election while his administration is working nonstop to do as much damage as possible on the way out the door. We are particularly concerned about Administration efforts to approve permits that amount to massive giveaways of precious public land to corporate mining interests. In each case, the administration is hurrying bureaucratic procedures to overturn longstanding public uses and protections before the January 20th inauguration of President-elect Biden.
Mining and other companies are getting pay back for supporting Donald Trump and Republicans. This assault on America’s public lands is a last-minute land grab, pushing aside long recognized cultural and environmental protections. Many of these end-of -term land transfers, mining permits and environmental waivers directly undermine or eliminate recognized Native American lands and uses. The assault involves lands in Virginia, West Virginia, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, South Dakota and Alaska. It involves actions across agencies including the EPA, Interior Department, and Forest Service. Sacred Native lands will face destruction, scenic public lands will be strip mined, water supplies permanently poisoned, the air polluted and endangered polar bear habitats and salmon runs laid waste.
Because these are bureaucratic/administrative actions the battle is out of the reach of Congress or state legislatures. Of course, we hope that the new Biden administration can reverse or delay some of these actions, but many might be too far along for that. The most immediate resistance is in the courts where legal challenges are the last stand between the land, the people and the bulldozers and seismic testing. During the last four years public interest lawsuits have forestalled disaster on hundreds of thousands of acres and preserved Native rights and animal habitats in multiple states across the country.