Healing Public Lands
WildEarth Guardians balances our efforts to reform public lands policy by participating in on-the-ground forest and watershed restoration projects. These projects also provide economic opportunities to forest-based communities.
WildEarth Guardians works with the Collaborative Forest Restoration Program in New Mexico to restore forests fragmented and waterways polluted by a needless network of roads, which is the legacy of unsustainable logging. In collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service and local contractors, we close these roads and create safer areas where rural communities meet the forest.
Our work to re-wild this landscape will expand already existing wilderness and roadless areas to create an interconnected system of wild places throughout the southern Rocky Mountains.
Our annual Stream Team community tree-planting events also restore degraded ecosystems.