Parks, Open Spaces, Wild Places

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How do we protect the places we love?

America the Beautiful

The Grand Canyon. The Everglades. The Arctic. Across America, a small number of wild places now represent what's left of our natural heritage. We’ve known some of their names and places on a map since grade school. And now they’re under siege. Read more.

National Forests

Nearly 60 million acres of our most pristine national forests have been under attack for the past 8 years. Now it's in the hands of the Obama Adminstration to uphold protections for our last untouched forests. Read more.

National Parks

From Yosemite to the Smoky Mountains, our national parks provide millions of Americans with unparalleled opportunities to connect with the outdoors. Unfortunately, budget cuts, air pollution and encroaching development are threatening this vital part of our natural heritage. Read more.

Landscapes: Where We Live

Sprawl is gobbling up America’s open space at alarming rates. We advocate for policies to conserve open space, including robust funding to put our treasured landscapes under permanent protection. Read more.

Parks, Open Spaces, Wild Places in brief

From the Arctic wilderness to the misty groves of the Appalachians to the rolling hills of the Great Plains to our beautiful coasts, America is home to some of the world’s most stunning landscapes, lush wildlife and natural beauty. Unfortunately, too many of our natural wonders have been lost to logging, mining, oil drilling and overdevelopment. That’s why we are working to protect America’s last pristine places, critical wildlife habitat and the laws that protect them.

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Save Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park is one of America's most treasured and pristine wild landscapes, home to grizzly bears, bald eagles and other endangered species. Unfortunately, the park is threatened by oil and gas drilling leases just outside its boundaries in the Flathead River Valley.

The Obama administration has launched a new initiative to reconnect Americans, especially kids, with our country's amazing natural beauty. They're calling the initiative America's Great Outdoors and they're looking for public input on the places that need more protection. We think Glacier should make the list.

To help protect Glacier National Park, please add your name to our petition to Ken Salazar, President Obama's Secretary of the Interior.

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Quietly Paving Paradise: How Bush Policies Still Threaten America's National Forests 4/14/2009

A new Environment America report reveals that nearly 90,000 acres of undeveloped national forest areas across the country that support clean water and critical wildlife have scheduled logging projects moving forward. Forests in Oregon, Alaska, Idaho and Colorado are among those scheduled for commercial logging starting this spring right under the nose of the new administration.