What is the Ironwood Forest National Monument?
Named after the Ironwood trees that inhabit it, this national monument was designated on June 9, 2000,
Ellen
Montgomery
Director, Great Outdoors Campaign, Environment America
Started on staff: 2001
B.A., Oberlin College
Ellen runs campaigns to protect America’s beautiful places, from local beachfronts to remote mountain peaks. She sits on the Steering Committee of the Arctic Defense Campaign and co-coordinates the Climate Forests Campaign. Ellen previously worked as the organizing director for Environment America’s Climate Defenders campaign and managed grassroots campaign offices across the country. Ellen lives in Denver, where she likes to hike in Colorado’s mountains.
Posts by Ellen Montgomery
Save Arizona’s Oak Flat from mining
Oak Flat in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest is threatened by a potentially toxic mining operation.
How Copper Mines Pollute
Toxic chemicals associated with copper mines can pollute the environment, causing serious harm to plants, animals and people.
Help protect the Tongass, Earth’s largest temperate rainforest
The Tongass is a wild, untamed Alaskan forest, home to wildlife from flying squirrels to endangered wolves. But the Tongass is also in great danger.
Protect the Great Bend of the Gila
Interview with Archaeology Southwest President Emeritus, Dr. William Doelle.