Protecting and Restoring Wild Places

Using a potent combination of litigation, grassroots organizing, and scientific analysis, WildEarth Guardians is working to protect the West’s special places and reform land management policies for public interests. From the Gila Bioregion to the Sagebrush Sea to the Southern Rockies, we are unrelenting watchdogs of public land.

Logging, mining, livestock grazing, oil and gas extraction, and other human activities have scarred and polluted our landscapes. Roads and all-terrain vehicles have made access to formerly remote areas easy, bringing noise and litter with them. More.

Our Wild Places Program does hands-on restoration projects with local communities to repair damage that has been done. Where myopic desires to tame nature have suppressed natural processes such as wildland fire, we fight in the courts and on the ground to have these processes safely restored. Because poisons are spread across vast swaths of the wild in attempts to control exotic plants, we use land management methods that show mechanical removal is safer and more effective. Working with policy-makers and private landowners, we advocate for voluntary livestock grazing permit buy-outs and a cultural heritage that values the diversity of life.