Nature in Need

An effort to secure big-time conservation funding in Massachusetts via the legislature or ballot box.

Staffing and funding cuts have pushed our National Wildlife Refuge System into crisis.

The Trump administration has already made cuts to staffing and funding for the National Park Service. Now they want to go much further.

A ballot measure in the Cincinnati region to raise $24 million annually for parks and conservation.

Approves sales tax funding for acquisition and management of natural areas in the Fort Collins area.

It raises $11 million to preserve open space in the Boise area. It also funds projects to improve public access and water quality.

USGS Ecosystems Mission Area is the backbone of our nation's ecological research. The administration is trying to dismantle it.

An environmental "line in the sand" for over 40 years, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is on the cusp of happening.

This proposed 211 mile industrial route would cross remote, roadless protected areas of Alaska.

With no environmental review, the administration is expanding the border wall through biodiversity hotspots.

The Trump administration is attempting to cancel a public lands rule that promoted conservation.

Rescinding the Roadless Rule would open 58.5 million acres of National Forest land to roadbuilding and logging.

The administration is undermining a fund dedicated to expanding parks and outdoor access.

The administration has taken steps to reduce in size or eliminate six national monuments to open up oil, gas, and mining development.

The administration is pushing to open marine national monuments in the Pacific to commercial fishing.

Endangered Species Act protection has been stripped from the lesser prairie-chicken. It faces risk of extinction.

The administration has weakened NEPA, the federal law that requires federal agencies to analyze environmental impacts of proposed actions and involve the public in decision making.

If passed, it renews a 0.1% sales tax for 10 years to fund conservation programs.

The Trump administration is trying to dismantle AmeriCorps - a cornerstone of youth service and conservation work in America.

The administration has taken steps to dismantle NOAA's entire research division.

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is the only US protected area in the Atlantic Ocean. Trump reopened it to commercial fishing.

Victory for public lands! Republicans in the Senate and the House were pushing provisions to sell public lands. They were defeated... for now.

The administration is pursuing a rule change for the Endangered Species Act. It would severely weaken the law's protection of endangered species.

Trump - citing his directive against DEI - cancelled $75 million in grants to over 100 nonprofit organizations that funded tree planting initiatives in cities and towns across the country.

The administration canceled FEMA grant funding for flood mitigation projects nationwide including this one.

The administration cancelled $11.2 million in funding for a coastal resilience and dune restoration project.

The administration and Republicans in Congress are advancing sulfide-ore copper mining by a Chilean company near Minnesota's Boundary Waters wilderness.

Another restoration project stopped in its tracks due to Trump's funding freezes.

The administration weakened the Migratory Bird Treaty Act by redefining the law.

The Trump Administration illegally dismantled USAID and cancelled congressionally approved funding for international conservation. These cuts are potentially catastrophic for global biodiversity.