Tell your members of Congress: Keep public lands in public hands

 Public lands span approximately 640 million acres nationwide, protecting important cultural sites, providing outdoor recreation, and sustaining clean water resources. They generate $45 billion in economic output and provide nearly 400,000 jobs across the country.

Our public lands are overwhelmingly popular, but the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress continue to push attempts to sell off these lands.

We need your voice: tell your members of Congress to keep public lands in public hands >>

Friend,

Public lands are under threat nationwide as the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress attempt to sell them off to states, extractive industries, and developers.

The 2025 budget reconciliation bill was one of the biggest sell-offs to the fossil fuel and extractive industries in history — greatly expanding coal mining, logging, and oil and gas drilling on public lands, including in the Arctic. And proponents of sell-off are just getting started: they’re working to defund land management agencies and fire the public servants who steward our public lands, attack bedrock environmental laws, repeal protections for millions of acres of forests and protected areas nationwide, and increase harmful fossil fuel development on these lands.

If the administration and Republicans get their way, we could lose hundreds of millions of acres of our public lands to extractive industry and developers. Make your voice heard today: tell your members of Congress to protect public lands and stand against the sell-offs.

Our public lands provide numerous benefits to people and the planet — safeguarding important historical and cultural sites, providing spaces for outdoor recreation, and sustaining our clean water resources — all while generating $45 billion in economic output and nearly 400,000 jobs in communities across the country.

Protecting public lands is overwhelmingly popular across the country. And as backlash against sell-off proposals has shown, selling them off is not. We need to continue showing Congress and proponents of the sell-offs that our public lands should remain in public hands.

Send a message to your members of Congress today: urge them to oppose any efforts, either Congressional or administrative, to sell off our public lands.

Thank you for all you do.

America Fitzpatrick
Conservation Program Director
League of Conservation Voters