January 2026 Conservation Update

Greetings from The Mountain Pact! 2026 is off to a fast start, and has already proven challenging for many of us who have watched the events in Minnesota over the past few weeks in horror. Our thoughts are with the friends, families, and loved ones of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, as well as everyone who has been impacted by these distressing and violent events. In scary times like these, we find it helpful to do what we can in our own communities, and hope you and yours are able to find time to peacefully reflect on these tragedies and take action locally.

In that spirit, we’ve been hard at work keeping tabs on the ongoing threats to public lands from the administration and pushing back against the nomination of an extreme, anti-public lands politician to run one of our nation’s most important public land management agencies. If you haven’t already, please consider contacting your Senator and urging them to vote no on Stevan Pearce’s nomination to direct the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Thank you for all that you do, and together let’s continue fighting to make sure we keep our public lands right where they belong: in public hands.