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Utah’s lawsuit to dispose of public lands and Wyoming’s recent state resolution to claim all public lands won’t be the last attempts to take over public lands.

Alongside Outdoor Alliance member org, Access Fund, we joined Climb Smart to celebrate their 29th year with an event in Joshua Tree, featuring stewardship, education, and advocacy.

This week, the House passed Fix Our Forests, a wildfire package that puts public lands and outdoor recreation at risk.

Outdoor Alliance staff at the White House for monument proclamation signing, plus our work to expand outdoor access in California in the coming years.

Our policy team predicts some of the biggest issues for 2025, including potential government shutdowns, reauthorizing the Legacy Restoration Fund, and conflicts over public lands.

The end of the last Congress and the final days of Biden administration saw important conservation and public lands efforts crossing the finish line, including a disaster relief bill, the EXPLORE Act, and historic action to protect our coasts.

Outdoor Alliance’s Vice President for Policy & Government Relations selected to serve on federal advisory committee for the BLM’s Public Lands Rule.

The recently-passed House rules include a provision that would make it easier to transfer or sell off public lands.

A look back on ten years of conservation powered by outdoor recreation alongside Outdoor Alliance member organization, Winter Wildlands Alliance.

Today, President Biden announced the designation of two national monuments in California, Chuckwalla National Monument and Sáttítla National Monument.

Today, after nearly a decade of work from the outdoor community, the EXPLORE Act passed through Congress and is on its way to the President’s desk to become law.

A legislation package 10 years in the making, the EXPLORE Act will create more bike trails, safeguard wilderness climbing, improve recreational permitting, fund parks and green spaces. 

Congress is expected to vote on disaster supplemental funding that would help address damages to public lands and waters from Hurricane Helene and other recent natural disasters.

Securing more funding for outdoor recreation, building a new generation of outdoor advocates, and protecting more public lands, plus more big wins for outdoor recreation this year.

New legislation in the Senate would extend the Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF) to address continued maintenance needs for parks and public lands.

The Mountaineers joined Outdoor Alliance in Washington, D.C. to celebrate ten years of conservation powered by outdoor recreation and to advocate for some of our biggest policy priorities to end the year, like passing the EXPLORE Act and advancing the Wild Olympics bill.

Natural disasters have profound consequences for public lands and waters and must be included in federal disaster funding.