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.
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
Why Alaska’s NPR-A, site of the Willow Project, deserves protection
There’s a lot of important wildlife habitat in the area where the Willow project is located. In April, 2024 President Biden acted to protect it.
What can we do to keep the boreal forest from being flushed away?
The towering trees of the boreal forest are being turned into toilet paper that gets flushed away forever. We’re telling Procter & Gamble, the maker of Charmin and other paper products, to go forest-free.
Bank of America said it would stop financing drilling in the Arctic Refuge. Now it’s backtracking.
Bank of America is walking back its commitment to not finance oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, putting this fragile ecosystem at risk.
Meet the wildlife that call old-growth forests home
We need to protect our old-growth and mature trees, or we could lose some of the most diverse and healthy ecosystems on the planet.