Outdoor Alliance unites the voices of paddlers, mountain bikers, hikers, climbers, surfers, and backcountry skiers to conserve America’s public lands and protect human-powered outdoor experiences.
Protecting Places
Protected public lands and waters are at the heart of great outdoor experiences. Outdoor Alliance works to conserve landscapes that provide important outdoor experiences and ensure sustainable access to human-powered recreation.
Outdoor Policy
Outdoor Alliance works to protect and promote sustainable, equitable access for outdoor recreation through advocating for new legislation, collaboration with land managers, and protections for public lands and waters. Along with promoting improved legislation, we defend critical conservation policy and the public process to ensure all Americans have a say over their public lands and waters.
Climate Policy
Climate change has a significant effect on public lands and waters. Addressing climate change means ensuring a future with clean air and water, protected land, renewable energy, and economic growth. Outdoor Alliance and its member groups work closely to make public lands and waters a part of climate solutions.
Funding Public Lands
Adequate funding is one of the biggest obstacles to protecting public land, and it’s a problem that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. Outdoor Alliance works to ensure that Congress allocates enough funding for the outdoors and that programs like the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the Great American Outdoors Act support outdoor experiences.
40 Million
acres of land protected
$5.1 billion
in funding for lands and waters
100k+
outdoor enthusiasts empowered to advocate for the outdoors
$814K
to outdoor recreation advocacy organizations
284
formal statements on policy issues
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Protect More Public Lands and Waters
Congress is considering new protections for special places in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and New Mexico. Take two minutes today to ask your members of Congress to pass vetted land protections for valuable public lands and waters.
Ask Lawmakers to Pass a Recreation Policy Package
A first-of-its-kind outdoor recreation package would protect climbing, expand mountain biking, and enhance outdoor recreation on America’s public lands and waters.
Protect Public Lands and Waters with Proper Funding
Congress is working on the federal budget for the upcoming year. This process, called appropriations, is complex but has huge implications for how our public lands and waters are managed. Budget cuts mean reduced funds for everything from local rangers to trail work to climate science to managing volunteers to coordinating public input.
Protect the Outdoors with a Gift to Outdoor Alliance
The outdoors bring us together. With mounting pressures on public lands, from extreme weather to record visitation to funding shortages, your voice and your support are more important than ever. Donate today to conserve land and protect outdoor experiences for everyone.
Access Fund, a founding member of Outdoor Alliance, is an advocacy powerhouse and has protected rock climbing access and public lands across the country since its founding.