Make the world a little greener with these environmental actions

Every Friday, we post ways that you can contribute to making our region a greener place, including events, community science projects, jobs, internships, scholarships, and direct actions. If you have something you would like included in the next round-up, please email Chris at info@rockymountainwild.org.

Featured Environmental Actions, Events, and Opportunities

We won! Court strikes down Wyoming National Grassland plan to kill prairie dogs, eliminate black-footed ferret restoration.

“The Forest Service should be ashamed of their plan to use shooting, poisoning, and unmitigated plague outbreaks to crush populations of native wildlife for the benefit of livestock grazing and local ranchers,” said Matt Sandler, Legal Director with Rocky Mountain Wild. “We are pleased that the Court has held the Forest Service to its duty to consider how its actions will impact species, especially the federally endangered black-footed ferret and the agency-listed sensitive species black-tailed prairie dog.”

Black-footed ferret popping in and out of a burrow
Piping plover and chicks

Protect piping plover, mule deer, and whitetail deer in Montana!

Montana Bureau of Land Management April 2025 Oil and Gas Lease Sale Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) is out. Paige’s screen shows that there are parcels in piping plover critical habitat, and in mule deer and whitetail deer winter distribution areas. Please take our resources to submit your comments to get affected parcels removed ahead of the December 20 deadline.

Join the Nature Awaits Movement!

Outdoor equity funds help ensure that everyone, everywhere, can access nature. The Wilderness Society launched a campaign to encourage state and federal lawmakers to increase funding to local organizations across the country working to get more people outside.

Nature Awaits logo
High mountain landscape looking down at road through green meadow.

Speak Out Against the Development at Wolf Creek Pass

Help us tell the developers and decision-makers why building a “village” for 10,000 people at Wolf Creek Pass is a bad idea and the wrong choice for our community and state.

Your statement can help us stop the destruction of this incredible natural resource.

Tell Congress to protect taxpayers and stop reckless attacks on the oil and gas rule!

The Bureau of Land Management recently finalized new oil and gas reforms to hold oil and gas companies accountable for cleaning up messes they make on public lands, protect taxpayers, and reduce harmful impacts to public lands. But now, those reforms are under attack from some politicians who want to boost corporations’ profits at taxpayers’ expense.

Oil derrick surrounded by sage brush
Image is a little brown bat with white nose syndrome. Text says "A deadly disease called white-nose syndrome has infected a bat in Colorado for the first time. Learn how you can help bats in Colorado." In the bottom left corner is the Colorado Bat Watch logo. In the bottom right corner is the website for Colorado Bat Watch coloradobatwatch.org

White-nose syndrome detected in a Colorado bat. Here’s how you can help.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed on Monday, April 24, 2023 that a bat infected with white-nose syndrome was found in Colorado for the first time. Finding out where bats are roosting, and monitoring bat populations through Colorado Bat Watch can help experts and officials respond to WNS in Colorado.

Organizations in Colorado Working Towards Equity in the Outdoors

In-Person Events

Virtual Events

Community Science Projects

Jobs, Internships, and Fellowships

New Direct Actions

Urgent Direct Actions (those with approaching deadlines)

  • Take action with Audubon. Reject a land exchange that would permanently damage the Refuge by allowing the construction of a privatized road through a designated Wilderness area. Comments are due December 30.
  • Take action with Earthjustice. Stop the unnecessary land swap and road from being built through an Alaska Wildlife Refuge. Comments are due December 30.
  • Take action with Wilderness Watch. A few days after the recent elections, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland proposed a land exchange to facilitate the construction of an 11-mile road through the protected tundra and wetlands of the world-renowned Izembek Wilderness and National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. If built, the road would be catastrophic for the critters that live there and would essentially cut the 307,982-acre Izembek Wilderness in two. Worse yet, if this land exchange goes through, any future Secretary of Interior could exchange lands in any Wilderness, National Park, or National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to allow for roads or other developments. Submit your comments to stop this disastrous land exchange. Comments are due December 30.

Evergreen Actions (until we succeed)

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