Dear NRDC Supporter,

Trump's parting blows to our shared public lands could be felt for decades.

In just the last couple of months, the administration has:

• Stripped protections from millions of acres of pristine wilderness in Alaska's Tongass National Forest to open them to industrial development (We're heading to court to stop them!)
• Announced the first-ever lease sale for oil drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (We're in court fighting back!)
• Made it easier to log in National Forests and eased the way for more oil and gas drilling
• And much more.

At NRDC, we're working overtime, in and out of court, to stop the devastating attacks on these pristine wildlands and the Indigenous communities who have lived and worked on them for millennia — but we urgently need your support at this time.

If you make a tax-deductible gift today, your donation will be triple matched, up to our $500,000 goal, to defend our environment on all fronts, block the Trump administration's parting attacks on our wildlands, and press the Biden-Harris administration in the months ahead to reverse Trump's extensive damage.

This dangerous escalation is just the latest in a long string of assaults the Trump administration has been waging on America's federally managed lands for the last four years.

The damage is, frankly, staggering. We've seen Utah's Bears Ears and Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monuments shrunk by 2 million acres to make way for industrial exploitation... an explosion of oil and gas leasing sales on federal lands across the country... and much more.

When we hand over federal lands to industrial development, we not only contaminate air and water for local communities and sacrifice natural places for people to recharge, we undermine one of the most critical tools for fighting climate change.

Here's the bottom line: Fossil fuel development on our shared public lands is a significant source of greenhouse gases and we cannot solve the climate crisis without protecting these lands and the ways of life of the Indigenous people who live there — they're inextricably linked.

NRDC's top-tier scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates have spent decades fighting for our shared public lands. Right now, we're balancing fending off the administration's eleventh-hour attacks while also planning and mobilizing to make sure reversing Trump's destruction is a top priority for the Biden-Harris administration.

Please help power this important work with a tax-deductible donation today and your gift will be TRIPLE MATCHED. $5 immediately becomes $15.

For the first time in a long time, I'm hopeful we will soon begin to turn the tide and protect our wild places. But I also know there are hard days ahead.

There will be powerful special interests in the fossil fuel, logging, and mining industries leaning on the Biden administration. It's going to take massive pressure from activists like you and me to make sure the hard work of beginning to reverse the damage to our cherished wildlands and protecting them for Indigenous communities living there right now and future generations is a top priority from day one.

Can I count on you to join our fight at this critical time? Your gift will have 3X the impact for just a few more days.

Thank you for your all you do! You make our work possible.

Sincerely,

Kabir Green
Director of Federal Affairs, NRDC