WildEarth Guardians

08/31/2026

This might be the perfect example of Trump not knowing what national parks and other public lands mean to this country. To anyone but a real estate developer, it would be obvious that the true value of any part of Yosemite far exceeds whatever price some developer is willing to pay to exploit it.

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

08/19/2026

Yesterday, the Trump administration proposed a massive attack on forest protections. But Americans across the political spectrum have made it crystal clear that they don’t want political appointees removing protections from public lands.

It would be a gross misreading of public sentiment to take the roadless rule away from Americans and our wildlife, and politicians do so at their jeopardy.

Read more featuring Guardians' Public Lands Attorney Chris Krupp:

The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to rescind a quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging and other development on national forest lands, drawing the ire of environmentalists nationwide.

08/18/2026

Breaking: Today the Trump administration announced its intention to entirely remove Roadless Area Conservation Rule protections, opening 45 million acres to logging, mining, and oil & gas drilling and harming wildlife, water, and forests.

The creation of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in 2001 was one of the most important single acts of land protection in our nation’s history. It has broad public support, with more than 95% of all public comments supporting keeping the Roadless Rule protected.

The move to repeal the Roadless Rule comes amid a slew of environmental rollbacks pursued by the Trump administration.

More ➡️ https://wildearthguardians.org/press-releases/killing-the-roadless-rule-will-harm-wildlife-water-and-old-growth-trees/

08/17/2026

Private companies poison sacred lands and waters and profit while we pay. It's time to change the equation.

Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) -- Melissa Troutman, a climate and health advocate with WildEarth Guardians, spoke befo...

08/17/2026

Drill, baby, drill? More like spill, baby, spill.

Did you hear that Trumpty Dumpty wants to slash protections for ancient sites in Chaco so his cronies can drill for oil and gas?

It's time to get the Frack Off Chaco and .

08/14/2026

We are sickened by the news that the New Mexico Department of Justice declined to bring criminal charges against a trapper who illegally set a trap on public land and then killed an endangered Mexican gray wolf in a shockingly cruel and horrific death.

We demand accountability and urge New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez to strengthen the NMDOJ’s prosecution of illegal activity related to trapping and other cruelty to wildlife. Since 2022, at least 23 Mexican gray wolves have been documented caught in traps in New Mexico, demonstrating that trapping is an ongoing and recurring threat to the state's endangered wolf population.

https://wildearthguardians.org/press-releases/coalition-demands-justice-for-endangered-mexican-wolf-killed-in-illegal-trap/

08/14/2026

Guardians' Climate and Health Advocate Melissa Troutman made a recent discovery hidden in New Mexico’s oil and gas spill data (reported by companies) — most of the contamination to fresh water from oil and gas spills in the state happens in Greater Chaco, the physical and cultural landscape around an ancient site where some of the first people of this continent lived, worshipped, traded, and created — and still do.

But that’s not all — the water contamination around Chaco is already getting worse, even with the buffer in place. So far in 2026, there’s already been more water contamination than all of 2025. Thanks Source New Mexico for covering.

An advocate told state lawmakers that much of New Mexico's oil-related water contamination is near Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

08/13/2026

Happy International Wolf Day from 🐺

"Wolves are back in Colorado because they belong here and deserve to be on the land they originally roamed."

This fight will be won by nature I keep hearing the same complaint from ranchers and Western Slope residents: wolf reintroduction was decided by Front Range voters who don’t have to live with the consequences. It’s a compelling story, but it’s also incomplete. Colorado’s public lands belong ...

08/13/2026

Today we celebrate International Wolf Day. Read Leia Barnett's latest op-ed on the ways that our lives invariably become more animate, dynamic and richer when we know we’re in the presence of a wolf.

In the summer of 2020, I took my first trip to the Gila National Forest in southwest New Mexico. I’m ashamed to say that despite the fact I was “born

08/13/2026

🐺 Happy International Wolf Day! From the Northern Rockies to the Southwest, we will never stop fighting for wolves and their right to thrive, roam, and belong across the West.