Ellen
Montgomery
Director, Public Lands Campaign, Environment America Research & Policy Center
Started on staff: 2001
B.A., Oberlin College
Ellen runs campaigns to protect America’s beautiful places, from local beachfronts to remote mountain peaks. Prior to her current role, Ellen worked as the organizing director for Environment America’s Climate Defenders campaign. 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
President Biden, cancel the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge leases
The Trump administration rushed a lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. President Biden can cancel those leases.
Uranium mining: What can go wrong?
In the areas around the Grand Canyon, there are 600 claims for uranium mining. What might this mean for the Grand Canyon?
29,000 petitions to President Biden asking for new Arizona monument
People from across the country support Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition proposal for national monument.
Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument
The new Grand Canyon National Monument will protect water, wildlife and cultural sites from uranium mining.