Bipartisan support saved our public lands from being sold off
Up to 1.2 million acres was close to being sold off until bipartisan pushback stopped the plan from moving forward
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
The new threats facing the sequoia forests of the Sierra Nevada
A misleading bill could irreversibly harm some of our oldest and most beloved forests.
Why we shouldn’t sell our national public lands
National public lands belong to all Americans. For hundreds of years, we've enjoyed our forests, rivers, wetlands and deserts. They should stay in public hands.
Arctic “special areas” deserve protection from drilling
There’s important wildlife habitat in the Western Arctic, also called the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). 13 million acres could lose protection
How Copper Mines Pollute
Toxic chemicals associated with copper mines can pollute the environment, causing serious harm to plants, animals and people.
