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Broads is a women-led nat'l grassroots organization that works to protect wilderness & wild lands.

Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a national grassroots organization, led by women, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands. Conceived by older women who love wilderness, Broads gives voice to the millions of older Americans who want to protect their public lands as Wilderness for this and future generations. We bring knowledge, commitment, and humor to the movement to protect our last wild places on earth.

10/27/2026

It seems that the attacks on our wild public lands and waters by big business and their friends in Washington D.C. are becoming more relentless every day.

And our amazing network of grassroots Broadband chapters and members across the country are there to fight back. From fighting for dam removal on the lower Snake River, to rallying against destructive border barrier construction in Big Bend National Park, to advocating for national forest research facilities in New England, Broads are there to give voice for the protection and preservation of the lands we all love and share.

This important work is only made possible through the generous support of our Wild Lands Protectors sustaining donors.

If you sign up to become a sustaining donor by October 31, we’ll send you our Chica reusable tote bag, a Broads lapel pin, and a Broads sticker. Plus, you’ll receive an awesome limited-edition, collectible 2026 member t-shirt!

Become a Wild Lands Protector sustaining member today—we can’t do it without you!

https://greatoldbroads.app.neoncrm.com/forms/sustainer

10/26/2026

Between 1962 and 1975, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a series of dams on the lower Snake River in Idaho with the intention of turning that part of the Snake into a navigable waterway for barge traffic.

The barges are barely used today—but the dams have decimated salmon populations, with a devastating impact on wildlife and the communities that call the watershed their home.

It’s time to breach these temporary dams and free the Snake!

Join us THIS THURSDAY, October 29 for a free online Lunch & Learn event, “Don’t Dam Salmon: Breach the temporary Lower Snake River Dams,” to learn more about the history of these dams, the reasons why they urgently need to be removed, and what Broads and our partners in this Indigenous-led effort are doing about it.

Click to learn more and register today: https://www.greatoldbroads.org/events/october-29-lunch-learn-dont-dam-salmon-breach-the-temporary-lower-snake-river-dams/

(Photo: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

10/22/2026

America’s bedrock conservation and environmental laws—including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Environmental Protection Act, the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), among others—are our nation’s safeguards laws that require federal agencies to consider a project’s possible environmental impacts before it is approved.

These laws not only protect our public lands and waters, but they also protect the air we breathe and the water we drink. They protect our nation’s historic and cultural heritage.

To big business, these bedrock laws are a hindrance. They are the supposed “red tape” that you hear some politicians and CEO’s constantly griping about. And now those big energy and tech companies and their allies in Congress are on the verge of passing a bill that would make it easier than ever to circumvent the laws that protect us all.

Click the link to learn more and take action today:
https://www.greatoldbroads.org/blog/our-wealth-tell-the-senate-to-vote-no-on-permitting-deal/

10/19/2026

Between 1962 and 1975, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a series of dams on the lower Snake River in Idaho with the intention of turning that part of the Snake into a navigable waterway for barge traffic.

The barges are barely used today—but the dams have decimated salmon populations, with a devastating impact on wildlife and the communities that call the watershed their home.

It’s time to breach these temporary dams and free the Snake!

Join us on Thursday, October 29 for a free online Lunch & Learn event, “Don’t Dam Salmon: Breach the temporary Lower Snake River Dams,” to learn more about the history of these dams, the reasons why they urgently need to be removed, and what Broads and our partners in this Indigenous-led effort are doing about it.

Click to learn more and register today: https://www.greatoldbroads.org/events/october-29-lunch-learn-dont-dam-salmon-breach-the-temporary-lower-snake-river-dams/

10/13/2026

It seems that the attacks on our wild public lands and waters by big business and their friends in Washington D.C. are becoming more relentless every day.

And our amazing network of grassroots Broadband chapters and members across the country are there to fight back. From fighting for dam removal on the lower Snake River, to rallying against destructive border barrier construction in Big Bend National Park, to advocating for national forest research facilities in New England, Broads are there to give voice for the protection and preservation of the lands we all love and share.

This important work is only made possible through the generous support of our Wild Lands Protectors sustaining donors.

Please become a Wild Lands Protector sustaining membership today—we can’t do it without you!

https://greatoldbroads.app.neoncrm.com/forms/sustainer

10/12/2026

U.S. Senator Mike Lee is trying once again to misuse the Congressional Review Act to dismantle a national monument's resource management plan—this time in Bears Ears National Monument. And if he succeeds, the results could be disastrous for the region's wildlife and incredible array of Indigenous cultural and historic sites.

Sen. Lee has taken the first procedural steps towards using the Congressional Review Act to throw out the Resource Management Plan (RMP). The RMP governs the way in which the Bureau of Land Management, Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Forest Service manage Bears Ears’ natural, cultural, and historic resources.

If he succeeds, it would leave Bears Ears—already in danger after the White House's illegal boundary reduction this past summer—one step closer to being wide open for uranium mining, oil and gas extraction, and more.

He tried this move earlier this year with the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument management plan and failed. He can't be allowed to succeed this time, either!

Make your voice heard and tell Congress to reject any effort to misuse the Congressional Review Act to dismantle the Bears Ears National Monument resource management plan today: https://www.votervoice.net/GreatOldBroads/Campaigns/140100/Respond

(Photo: BLM)

10/11/2026

Here's an item to keep an eye on over the coming months:

A startup whose founder has vowed to "make nuclear great again" wants to build HUNDREDS of nuclear reactors on 9,000 acres of federal public land in Utah to power data centers.

According to NPR, "Project Beehive" would be built by Valar Atomics on BLM-managed public lands just outside Price, Utah. The facility would include data centers and over 450 small nuclear reactors, along with "a facility to produce nuclear fuel and others for storing nuclear waste," according to a proposal from the company to federal regulators.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2026/09/30/nx-s1-5983482/valar-atomic-nuclear-data-center-project-beehive-utah

10/09/2026

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has concluded the public comment period on the Trump administration’s plan to rescind the popular Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

Over a million public comments, from postcards and petitions to multi-page technical comments and personalized letters, were submitted—with over 99% of the comments in favor of maintaining this important rule protecting 44.7 million acres of national forest from development, according to a new analysis by the Center for Western Priorities.

Read more from our friends over at Oregon Wild: https://oregonwild.org/one-million-comments-in-favor-of-roadless-wildlands/

10/08/2026

Between 1962 and 1975, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a series of dams on the lower Snake River in Idaho with the intention of turning that part of the Snake into a navigable waterway for barge traffic.

The barges are barely used today—but the dams have decimated salmon populations, with a devastating impact on wildlife like the Southern Resident Orcas and the communities that have made the watershed their home, such as the Palouse people, the Yakama Nation, the Umatilla Tribe, the Warm Springs Tribe, and the Nez Perce Tribe.

It’s time to breach these temporary dams and free the Snake!

Join us on Thursday, October 29 for a free online Lunch & Learn event, “Don’t Dam Salmon: Breach the temporary Lower Snake River Dams,” to learn more about the history of these dams, the reasons why they urgently need to be removed, and what Broads and our partners in this Indigenous-led effort are doing about it.

Learn more and register today!
https://www.greatoldbroads.org/events/october-29-lunch-learn-dont-dam-salmon-breach-the-temporary-lower-snake-river-dams/

(Photo: NIMÍIPUU PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT)

10/06/2026

This summer, the White House changed the federal government’s interpretation of the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Previously, the definition of “harm” to a species included the habitat and resources a species needs to survive. Now, agencies will interpret “harm” to mean only the intentional killing or harming of an individual of a species, dramatically narrowing the reach and scope of the law formerly focused on ecosystem-wide protection.

The Swinomish and Squaxin Island Tribes are now suing the federal government over this radical reinterpretation of the law—highlighting the lack of Tribal consultation, as well as the devastating impacts the new interpretation could have on the recovery of imperiled species, many of which have cultural, spiritual and relational meaning and importance to Indigenous citizens.

Read more:
https://www.hcn.org/issues/58-10/native-nations-sue-over-endangered-species-act-changes/

(Photo: HCN/Jovelle Tamayo)

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