NEW Mountain Pact Sign on Letter & June Federal Public Lands Updates + Ways to Take Action
Anna Peterson
- WAYS TO TAKE ACTION: Please sign on here, share the letter (especially with new council members/trustees/supervisors/commissioners who aren't on our lists but might be interested!), and let me know if you have any questions. You can also just email me - "Yes" and I'll add you to the list of signers.
- WAYS TO TAKE ACTION: Let me know if you are interested in this. We have templates folks can use as a starting place if helpful.
- WAYS TO TAKE ACTION:
- Read more from Western elected officials in our press release and in Representatives Vasquez and Ciscomanis' statements from this month
- Media Coverage on our release: The Mountain West News Bureau covered the release in KJZZ, KUNC, KUNR
- Please consider sharing our social posts:
- Quotes: Facebook // Instagram // X // Bluesky // LinkedIn
- Media Coverage and Rep Statements: Facebook // Instagram // X // Bluesky // LinkedIn
- Please thank or ask your congressional folks to co-sponsor (H.R.9167 and S.4455). We hope to see other Western elected representatives joining the bill to protect the outdoor spaces that support their communities - please consider sending an individual letters asking for co-sponsors! Let me know if you are interested in this and we can help with template letters.
Thursday, June 11 was the deadline to pass Sen. Lee’s CRA bill by a simple majority, yet the Senate adjourned without a vote on the legislation. That means the bill is now subject to the filibuster, and so effectively dead in the water.
See press statements from the Grand Staircase-Escalante Inter-Tribal Coalition and the Utah and national coalition.
2 - American the Beautiful Act - Last week the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and yesterday the House Natural Resource Committee, advanced The America the Beautiful Act. If passed by both chambers and signed into law, the legislation would reauthorize the Great American Outdoors Act and the Legacy Restoration Fund, which expired in 2025. The bill still has momentum on a fast track to passage (though not by July 4th since the Senate has now adjourned) but work on the final text that will pass is still ongoing and Chairman Lee has not dropped his desire to see LWCF “reforms”, so our work continues in both chambers to ensure no changes to LWCF make their way into the bill at any stage
The Legacy Restoration Fund provides $1.9 billion to address deferred maintenance on public lands. Across federal land management agencies, the deferred maintenance backlog totals roughly $43 billion. The fund will be used to repair or replace aging buildings, roads, trails, campgrounds, and water treatment systems.
3 - Court Blocks Censorship and Erasure of American History and Science at National Parks - On June 12, 2025, a U.S. District Court has issued an order stopping the Trump-Vance administration from censoring American history and science and ordering the restoration of unlawfully censored information displayed in America’s our national parks and monuments. The preliminary injunction comes in response to National Parks Conservation Association et al. v. Department of the Interior, et al., a case brought by a coalition of organizations committed to protecting America’s national parks, preserving and sharing history, promoting scientific literacy and access, and providing high-quality interpretive materials.
Founded in 2014, The Mountain Pact educates, empowers, and mobilizes hundreds of bi-partisan local elected officials in over 150 Western mountain communities with outdoor recreation based economies to speak with a collective voice on federal climate, public lands, and outdoor recreation policy.