Dear NRDC Activist,

The Trump administration's latest attack on public lands and wildlife is like nothing we've ever seen.

Trump's Interior Department signed a slew of devastating Secretarial Orders last month that threaten our public lands — potentially handing over millions of acres to Big Oil and other corporate polluters, gutting protections for national monuments, and fast-tracking the destruction of imperiled species' habitats.

Just days ago, Trump's Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced one of his first moves to carry out these orders — rushing to reopen millions of acres of America's Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Western Arctic Reserve, to destructive oil and gas drilling. It's a warning shot: this is only the beginning. More rollbacks are coming, and the administration is wasting no time turning these plans into reality.

We can't stay silent. Will you help us mobilize a groundswell of public opposition to the Trump administration's dangerous plans?

Add your name now to demand Interior Secretary Doug Burgum end his attacks on our nation's cherished public lands before it's too late.

The Trump administration is using these sweeping directives to prioritize industry over our environment, putting millions of acres of wilderness, fragile ecosystems, and culturally significant sites at risk. If they aren't challenged, some of the most breathtaking and ecologically vital places in the country could be lost forever.

The Interior Department's destructive orders could:

• Eliminate the Public Lands Rule, stripping away conservation protections from millions of acres of public forests, deserts, grasslands, and canyons. This rule helps to ensure that public lands are less likely to be exploited for fossil fuel extraction, providing additional protections for lands that are ecologically and culturally significant. If left unchecked, the elimination of the rule will elevate claims by oil, gas, and mining corporations — threatening sacred Indigenous lands, wildlife habitats, and pristine wilderness.
• Remove protections for some of the country's most cherished national monuments, including Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon. That means that these landscapes — rich with cultural heritage, Indigenous history, and irreplaceable biodiversity — could be opened to oil drilling, uranium mining, and other destructive industries.
• Open millions of acres in America's Arctic to oil and gas drilling and industrial development. The administration plans to reopen vast stretches of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Western Arctic Reserve to leasing — threatening critical habitat for polar bears, caribou, and the snowy owl and carving through one of the last truly wild places on Earth.

Taken together, these orders are the Trump administration's opening salvo on our nation's most iconic natural wonders. Where we see breathtaking geological features and critical wildlife habitats, this administration sees nothing but dollar signs.

We must act now to challenge these destructive orders before they lead to irreversible damage.

NRDC has fought attacks like these before. We helped restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante after Trump worked to gut them. We've taken on illegal drilling leases, blocked unlawful pipeline permits, and defended the Endangered Species Act in court.

But stopping the Trump administration's attacks will take massive public pressure — and we need your voice.

The Trump administration is betting that they can get away with this while no one is watching. We're watching. And we're fighting back.

Sign the petition now to save America's public lands and the wildlife and communities that depend on them.

Thank you for standing with us.

Sincerely,

Bobby McEnaney
Director of Land Conservation, NRDC