President Trump and Senate Republicans are pushing forward a disastrous proposal to sell off millions of acres of public lands. The latest version of their funding package, unironically dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill,” requires the sale of 3.3 million acres of public lands, and an amendment authorizes the sale of 258 million acres more—including many of the wild places you’ve worked to protect from logging—to private interests. The bill would also mandate wildly inflated timber targets and ramp up oil and gas leasing and development across the West, exacerbating the worst impacts of the twin biodiversity and climate crises. Masquerading as a fix to the housing crisis, this public land grab threatens the mature and old-growth forests that provide crucial fish and wildlife habitat, filter our drinking water, absorb climate pollution, and offer unrivaled recreation opportunities. We need your voice NOW to stop this brazen public land grab.
Grassroots and Field Manager, Madeline Cowen, embraces an old-growth Douglas fir in the Willamette National Forest, now at risk of privatization. Photo by: Andrew Kumler.