National parks, national monuments, and other public lands and waters are some of our country’s most popular areas for exploring nature while conserving landscapes, cultural areas, clean water, and wildlife for the future. They are part of what makes this country great, but the Trump Administration, some members of Congress, and certain state leaders want to sell off or give away these cherished places to billionaires and corporate polluters to increase drilling, logging, and mining.
Already in 2025, legislation has advanced or been introduced in Congress to sell off and privatize public lands, to eliminate conservation areas, and to prevent future presidents from protecting additional national monuments. Now Senate Republicans are proposing to sell off millions of acres of public lands across the West to private developers and give away even more to corporate industries—all to help fund tax cuts for billionaires.
After language to sell off federal lands was removed from the House reconciliation bill, a more extreme proposal surfaced in the Senate – one that would allow the sale of over 10M acres of BLM and Forest Service lands in California, second only to Alaska in terms of acreage – under the false pretense of supporting affordable housing. In reality, many of these areas are remote, rugged, and better known for hiking trails, wildlife, and watershed value than housing potential. This is a trojan horse for raising revenue for tax cuts for the wealthy.
President Trump has also personally directed a massive effort to strip protections of public lands and waters to enable extractive industrial development. We’ve even seen reports that Trump will attempt to dismantle national monuments and also plans to sell off or lease more public lands to corporate interests who bought access to the administration.
It’s more important than ever to demand that your members of Congress do all they can to defend the national monuments and other public lands and waters we all love.
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