Under the Trump administration, the National Park Service has lost 24% of its permanent staff, and more than 90 parks are reporting real harm: missing rangers, uncollected fees, shuttered visitor centers, and even cuts to lifesaving emergency services. Some national parks may be forced to close their gates altogether.
Big Oil, mining giants, and logging interests are working to strip away protections for our public lands and silence the public voice entirely. In 2026, we'll be fighting nonstop to protect millions of acres of wild forests, stop sell-offs to corporate polluters, and defend public land protections from being gutted.
The threats extend through Alaska's Brooks Range Mountains, across the Western Arctic's treeless tundra, to the 1.5 million acres of the Arctic Refuge's coastal plain. In 2026, we could see mining roads carved through national parks, irreplaceable wildlife habitats fragmented, and sacred places for Alaska Native Tribes polluted.
We've stopped this destruction before. With your help, we will again. Everything we must do in 2026 — every lawsuit, every mobilization, every defense of the places we love — depends on what we choose in these final hours of the year.
