Wild Places

WildEarth Guardians’ Wild Places Program protects public and private land from destruction and restores previously damaged areas throughout the West.

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.

Our vision is clear and bold: immense wild landscapes interconnected by corridors that are free from human activity and teeming with the diversity of life.

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.

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.

We are in the process of building our WildEarth Guardians website. In the meantime, check out Forest Guardians and Sinapu web pages on these wild places issues:

Protecting and Restoring Special Places such as the Colorado Plateau, the Great Plains and the Sagebrush Sea, Chihuahuan & Sonoran Deserts, our Rocky Mountains and the Gila Bioregion

Protection and Policy Reform for our Public Lands: Grazing Lands,  Forests, and Deserts and Grasslands

Retiring Grazing Permits and Challenging the Harmful Use of Toxins and removal of Invasive Species

Healing our Public Lands: Forest Restoration and Riparian Area Restoration