Canyons 101
We've run campaigns to protect many canyons: the Grand, Chaco, the Dolores River, the Owhyee and more. But what is a canyon? Learn more ...
Ellen
Montgomery
Director, Public Lands 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.
This country has an incredible legacy of protecting land, and we need to keep building on that
Posts by Ellen Montgomery
Sonoran desert treasure: Kw’tsan National Monument
The Sonoran desert in Southern California is the ancestral homeland of the Yuma Quechan Tribe, who have requested a national monument to protect this area.
What are the benefits of urban trees in cities?
Urban trees are good for people and wildlife. They keep us healthy and make us happy.
Hundreds showed their support for protecting California’s desert
16,400 petitions submitted to President Biden asking for new California monument
People nationwide support proposal for Chuckwalla National Monument