Fight for Every Inch Against 30×30
The 30×30 campaign is a major effort to lock up 30% of the nation’s land by the year 2030. Anyone who has read the details of how this plan will be implemented understands it is a clear effort to lock the American people out of their land. While there is no legislation to designate these exact parameters, the way 30×30 proponents will achieve this goal is through restrictive land use designations. There will be no bill that is presented to the federal legislature to lock up 30% of the land. These extreme groups will slowly do this, working around the clock, to designate monuments, wilderness, wilderness study areas and areas with wilderness characteristics. These designations come sometimes through executive orders, but in many cases they will come through land agency management plans. We created the Fight for Every Inch campaign to create a movement to push back!
National Monuments
Recently the Biden Administration used the Antiquities Act to designate national monuments in Southern Utah. Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears are a crucial piece to the 30×30 puzzle.
The State of Utah recently filed a lawsuit to challenge these monument designations.
BlueRibbon Coalition also filed a companion lawsuit to also challenge the monuments. Both the State of Utah and the BlueRibbon Coalition challenges are based on a commitment to see the Supreme Court weigh in on abuse of the Antiquities Act by President Biden. For a full briefing our Executive Director, Ben Burr, explained our justification for this challenge in an opinion editorial for the National Review.
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Wilderness
Wilderness is the most restrictive form of land management and has to be designated through Congress. There are currently several bills in Western states that would designate millions of acres of wilderness.
BRC is actively tracking all of these bills, and we encourage you to take action to oppose the bills that will expand wilderness.
Wilderness Study Areas/Areas with Wilderness Characteristics
You will find as the BLM and Forest Service update management plans, they propose areas that could potentially become wilderness. We call this wilderness laundering. There are currently management plan and travel management plan proposals in Utah, Colorado, Nevada, South Dakota, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Oregon and Montana with more to come.
BRC is involved with these plans every step of the way. We need you to comment, to discourage the shutdown of public access in these areas.
With the current administration, land agencies are being very aggressive and rolling out proposals at a fast rate. As all of these new proposals continue, we need your help to submit comments. 30×30 won’t happen overnight with one large bill but piece by piece through these small processes. BRC is committed to fighting this every step of the way to Fight for Every Inch and we need your help. The best way to ensure that you have all the tools you need to join us in this fight is to become a premium member of BlueRibbon Coalition.
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BREAKING: Trump Reduces Bears Ears and Grand Staircase National Monuments, Reopening 3M Acres to Public Access
Trump reduced two sprawling Utah national monuments, a win for the ranchers, riders, and rural communities harmed by decades of Antiquities Act overreach. BRC is pairing the reduction with legal precedent so a future administration cannot simply redraw the lines. Donate to the Legal Fund and add your voice today to help make this win last.
Tell Washington: Abuse of Antiquities Act and Oversized National Monuments Must Be Reined In
Oversized national monuments have locked up millions of acres of public land and set the stage for road closures, OHV restrictions, and lost access. A June 2026 court ruling in a case BRC helped bring confirmed these designations can now be challenged and reduced. Take action today and tell Congress, the Administration, and the courts to bring these boundaries back in line with the law.
Interior Reviews Wilderness Study Areas Locking Up Public Land
The Department of the Interior just opened a nationwide review of Wilderness Study Areas, the same outdated policy that has locked millions of acres in wilderness-style limbo for decades without a vote from Congress. BRC petitioned for this reform months ago, and now your voice can push it across the line. Submit a comment to the Interior Department supporting WSA reform before the August 14, 2026 deadline.
San Rafael Swell: BLM May Reopen Hundreds of Miles of OHV Routes – Add Your Voice
The BLM comment period closes TODAY, June 8. Once it shuts, these closures get one step closer to permanent. Add your comments before midnight on June 8th.
New Mexico Bill Could Lock Up 85,000 Acres and Decommission OHV Roads – Urge Your Reps to Oppose
The Caja del Rio Protection Act would create new federal designations across 85,000 New Mexico acres with a built-in mandate to decommission roads not listed on a map that does not yet exist. BRC opposes the bill because these designations have a proven track record of eliminating motorized access over time. Send your comment today and urge your representatives to vote no.
Timeline: BRC’s 3-Year Fight to Rescind the BLM Public Lands Rule
The BLM’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule is gone, and BRC has been working to kill it since the day it was proposed. Over three years, BRC mobilized members, submitted formal comments, worked with Congress, took meetings at the highest levels of the Administration, met with agency officials and monitored BLM offices for conservation lease applications. This is what sustained advocacy with help from our supporters looks like.