Congress: vote NO on the House reconciliation bill

On May 7, the House Committee on Natural Resources advanced legislation that does the unthinkable – authorizes the sell-off of thousands of acres of public lands in Utah and Nevada. This reconciliation bill would reshape the National Park System as we know it.

This bill would also claw back Inflation Reduction Act funding originally set aside to address the climate crisis; propose further reductions in staff to an already understaffed National Park Service; accelerate oil and gas leasing near public lands; and greenlight the Ambler industrial mining road in Alaska.

This bill doubles down on the Trump administration’s catastrophic actions that could dismantle a 100-year-old institution.

But it’s not too late. Our representatives can still save our public lands, but we must urge them to act now and oppose this bill, before we become the generation who put profit over people, and the parks we have spent over 100 years protecting.

This message will be sent to the Senate:

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As a supporter of our national parks, I urge you to vote NO when the House reconciliation bill comes to the floor. This is an anti-national parks bill.

NPS has been understaffed for over a decade. But this bill cuts funding for national park staffing and programs. The oil and gas industry should be paying their fair share when drilling on public lands and waters. But this bill promotes more drilling while lowering the rates that oil and companies pay to drill. And the bill promotes destructive projects like the Ambler industrial mining road through Gates of the Arctic National Preserve and the potential exploitation of Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

And worst of all, the bill opens the door to sell off public lands right next door to Zion National Park. Public lands should stay in public hands, not be sold off to the highest bidder.

This bill is the opposite of what is needed and could do irreparable harm to our parks. It is an effort to dismantle the National Park Service. I urge you to vote NO.

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