The effort to protect 30% of U.S. lands and ocean by 2030 is gaining momentum across the country. President Joe Biden has adopted a national 30x30 goal and pledged to take swift action to address the nature crisis. Across the country, communities, local leaders, businesses, state legislators, and Members of Congress are voicing their support for a more ambitious vision for nature conservation in America.
30X30 IS SUPPORTED BY
| AMERICAN VOTERS |
| NATIONAL, TRIBAL, STATE, & LOCAL LEADERS |
| ORGANIZATIONS & BUSINESSES |
Overwhelming majorities of American voters support a 30x30 goal:
The Biden-Harris administration has pledged to pursue a national 30x30 goal.
Just one week into his tenure, President Joe Biden signed an executive order establishing a national 30x30 goal and instructing his administration to work collaboratively—alongside rural communities, Tribal Nations, private landowners, fishers, and many others on the frontlines of conserving, stewarding, restoring, using, and enjoying nature—to meet the sale of the nature crisis. The Biden-Harris administration has since launched the America the Beautiful initiative, a decade-long challenge to work together to conserve, connect, and restore 30% of our lands and waters for the sake of our economy, our health, and our well-being.
“Where this path leads over the next decade will be determined not by our agencies, but by the ideas and leadership of local communities,” writes Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory. “It is our job to listen, learn, and provide support along the way to help strengthen economies and pass on healthy lands, waters, and wildlife for generations to come.”
ELECTED LEADER SUPPORT
Tribal Support:
Tribal Nations and Tribal Consortia support a national goal to protect 30% of the U.S. by 2030, with tribal organizations representing over 50 federally recognized tribes signing a “Tribal Leader Statement on 30x30 Policy” making clear that 30x30 efforts to accelerate conservation are a vitally important opportunity to strengthen the Nation-to-Nation relationship, and uphold Tribal sovereignty and self-determination. The following Tribal Nations, tribal consortia, and tribal leaders have expressed support for 30x30 efforts and Tribal priorities:
Kawerak, Inc, the Tribal Consortia in the Bering Strait Region of Alaska, where there are 20 federally recognized tribes.
The Tohono O’odham Nation, San Xavier District, in Arizona.
The Kashia Band of Pomo Indians, the Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians, the Redwood Valley Little River Band of Pomo Indians, the Resighini Rancheria, the Round Valley Indian Tribes, the Cahto Tribe Of Laytonville Rancheria, and the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council in California.
The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan.
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) in Massachusetts.
The Walker River Paiute Tribe in Nevada.
The Pueblo of Acoma in New Mexico.
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, the Suquamish Tribe, and the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, a natural resources management support service organization for 20 treaty Indian tribes, in Washington.
The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians in Wisconsin.
Congressional Support:
During the 116th Congress, Senators Tom Udall (NM) and Michael Bennet (CO) and other cosponsors introduced the “Thirty by Thirty Resolution to Save Nature” (S.Res.372). Representatives Deb Haaland (NM), Joe Neguse (CO), Ted Lieu (CA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Ed Case (HI), and other cosponsors championed the resolution (H.Res.835) in the U.S. House. This Thirty by Thirty Resolution to Save Nature would establish a national goal of conserving 30% of U.S. lands and ocean by 2030, and outlines key principles by which the nation should pursue this objective.
State and Local Support:
State and local elected officials from across the country have come together to support confronting America’s nature and climate crises by pursuing a national 30×30 goal. In an open letter, more than 450 state and local leaders from 43 states wrote: “Achieving 30x30 will require an ambitious and inclusive movement that engages local, state, national and Tribal leaders, as well as private landowners, as part of the solution. We support a national goal of protecting and restoring 30% of land and ocean by 2030 and commit to taking action now in our communities and states to reach it.”
STATE-BY-STATE 30X30 EFFORTS
States that are pursuing 30x30 conservation action include California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.
LOCAL 30x30 RESOLUTIONS
Across the Mountain West — home to most of the nation's national public lands — a growing list of city councils and county commissions are adopting resolutions to support the 30x30 goal. They include:
Colorado:
Adams County Commission | Avon Town Council | Boulder County Commission | Broomfield City Council | Carbondale Town Council | Frisco Town Council | Gilpin County Commission | La Plata County Commission | Pitkin County Commission | Ridgway Town Council | Telluride Town Council | San Miguel County Commission
Nevada:
New Mexico:
Las Cruces City Council | Santa Fe County Commission
Utah:
MAYORS NATIONWIDE SUPPORT 30X30
A bipartisan letter signed by 70 mayors from 29 states and Washington DC declared their support for protecting 30% of the nation’s lands, waters, and ocean by 2030.
Now, communities across the country are rising to the task. In Boise, Idaho, Mayor Lauren McLean has led the city in creating a set of unique 30×30-related goals fostering resilient ecosystems and creating meaningful outdoor recreation opportunities for community members.
BUSINESS AND
NON-PROFIT SECTOR SUPPORT
NON-PROFIT SECTOR SUPPORT
Over 340 non-profit organizations and businesses from 45 states and territories have voiced their support for conserving 30% of America’s lands, waters, and ocean by 2030.
These organizations are:
2% for Conservation
Alabama Audubon
Alachua Conservation Trust
Alaska Wilderness League
Alliance for the Great Lakes
Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley
Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
American Battlefield Trust
American Hiking Society
American Littoral Society
American Rivers
Anacostia Watershed Society, Inc.
Annapolis Green, Inc.
Appalachia Ohio Alliance
Appalachian Mountain Club
Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Archaeology Southwest
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Athens Conservancy
Audubon Naturalist Society
Audubon South Carolina
Azul
Bay Paddle
Bergen County Zoological Park
Better Building Institute Inc. (nfp)
Blank Park Zoo
Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation
Blue Planet Strategies
Blue Ridge Land Conservancy
Bold Alliance
Buckeye Trail Association
California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV)
California Native Plant Society
California Wilderness Coalition
Californians for Western Wilderness
Capital Region Land Conservancy
Cascadia Wildlands
Center for American Progress
Center for Biological Diversity
Center for Coastal Studies
Center for Justice, Outreach and Yoga, LLC
Center for Large Landscape Conservation
Center For Sustainable Communities
Central OR Bitterbrush Broads, Great Old Broads for Wilderness
Central Oregon LandWatch
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Chesapeake Conservancy
Clean Fairfax
Clean Water Action
Cleanwater Linganore Inc.
Climate Law & Policy Project
Cloe Cadiz
Coalition for Smarter Growth
Coalition of Ohio Land Trusts
Coalition to Protect America's National Parks
Colorado Ocean Coalition
Colorado Wildlands Project
Committee on the Middle Fork Vermilion River
Connecticut Ornithology Association
Conservation Alabama
Conservation Colorado
Conservation Council For Hawaii
Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast
Conservation Lands Foundation
Conservation Law Foundation
Conservation Minnesota
Conservation Northwest
Conservation Realty Group, LLC dba Venture in Conservation
Conservation Voters for Idaho
Conservation Voters New Mexico
Conservation Voters of South Carolina
Conserve Southwest Utah
Continental Divide Trail Coalition
Corazon Latino
Council of Mexican Federations in North America (COFEM)
CT League of Conservation Voters
Dallas Zoo
David Traylor Zoo of Emporia
Defenders of Wildlife
Delaware Nature Society
Earth Strategy
Earthjustice
Eco-Justice Collaborative
Ecology Center
Ecumenical Eco-Justice of St. Joseph, Inc.
Elements of Change
Environment America
Environmental Action Committee of West Marin (EAC)
Environmental Law & Policy Center
Environmental League of MA
E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation and the Half-Earth Project
Florida Conservation Voters
Florida's Nature Coast Conservancy
For Love of Water (FLOW)
Forest Conservancy, Limited
Forever Maryland Foundation
Fort Ord Recreation Trails Friends (FORT Friends)
Friends and Neighbors of the Deschutes Canyon Area
Friends of AZ Joshua Tree Forest
Friends of Big Morongo Canyon Preserve
Friends of Browns Canyon
Friends of Dyke Marsh
Friends of Lower Beaverdam Creek
Friends of Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks
Friends of Plumas Wilderness
Friends of Quincy Run Watershed
Friends of the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument
Friends of the Inyo
Friends of the Mariana Trench
Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument
Friends of the Nanticoke River
Friends of the Owyhee
Friends of the Rivers of Virginia
Friends of the San Pedro River Inc
Full Circle Design and Consulting - Benefit LLC
Gallatin Wildlife Association
Gallatin Yellowstone Wilderness Alliance
Georgia Conservation Voters
Gila Conservation Coalition
Gila Resources Information Project
Goose Creek Association
Grand Canyon Trust
Grand Prairie Friends Land Trust
Grand Staircase Escalante Partners
Great Egg Harbor Watershed Association
Great Old Broads for Wilderness
Greater Hells Canyon Council
Greater Highland Area Concerned Citizens
GreenLatinos
Greenpeace USA
GreenRope
Guam Community College Ecowarriors
Gullah/Geechee Fishing Association
Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition
Healthy Ocean Coalition
High Country Conservation Advocates
Highlands Nature Sanctuary
Hispanic Access Foundation
Honolulu Zoo Society
Horry County Rising, Inc.
Huron River Watershed Council
Illinois Council of Trout Unlimited
Illinois Environmental Council
Illinois Stewardship Alliance
Indivisible Huron Valley
Inland Ocean Coalition
Inland Ocean Coalition Alaska Chapter
Inland Ocean Coalition Arizona Chapter
Inland Ocean Coalition Buffalo New York Chapter
Inland Ocean Coalition Central Texas Chapter
Inland Ocean Coalition CSU Fort Collins Chapter
Inland Ocean Coalition CU Boulder Chapter
Inland Ocean Coalition Great Lakes Chapter
Inland Ocean Coalition Illinois Chapter
Inland Ocean Coalition Montana Chapter
Inland Ocean Coalition North Texas
Inland Ocean Coalition University of Michigan Chapter
Inland Ocean Coalition Utah Chapter
Inland Ocean Coalition Washington DC Chapter
Inland Ocean Coalition Wyoming Chapter
Inland Woods + Trails
International Crane Foundation
International Fund for Animal Welfare
Island Marine Survey
Jenkinson's Aquarium
Kaha Kukahi
Kansas City Zoo
King Range Alliance
Land Trust Alliance
Land Trust of Virginia
League of Conservation Voters
Lehigh Valley Zoo
Living Classrooms Foundation
Los Padres ForestWatch
Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy
Loxahatchee River Historical Society
Lynnhaven River NOW
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust
Maine Conservation Voters
Maine Unitarian Universalist State Advocacy Network
MAIPC
Marine Conservation Institute
Maryland Conservation Council
Maryland League of Conservation Voters
Mass Audubon
Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition
Mattawoman Watershed Society
Maui Sports Adventures
Metro East Green Alliance (IL)
MI Air MI Health
Michigan Climate Action Network
Michigan Environmental Council
Michigan League of Conservation Voters
Mill Creek Alliance
Milwaukee County Zoo
Milwaukee Riverkeeper
Minorities in Shark Sciences
Mission Blue
Mojave Desert Land Trust
Montana Conservation Voters
Montana Wilderness Association
Montana Wildlife Federation
Moonville Rail Trail Inc.
Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust
Mystic Aquarium
Nadia’s Cake Co
National Aquarium
National Ocean Protection Coalition
National Parks Conservation Association
National Wildlife Federation
Native Fish Society
Natural Land Institute
Natural Resources Council of Maine
Natural Resources Defense Council
Nature for All
NC League of Conservation Voters
NeighborSpace of Baltimore County
Nevada Conservation League
New England Aquarium
New Jersey Audubon
New Jersey League of Conservation Voters
New Mexico Wild
New Mexico Wildlife Federation
New River Land Trust
New York League of Conservation Voters
Next 100 Coalition
Nicole Croft Consulting
Northeast Wilderness Trust
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness
Northern Virginia Conservation Trust
NorthFork Financial
Ocean Conservancy
Oceana
Ohio Environmental Council
Ohio Parks and Recreation Association
Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden
Open Space Institute
Oregon Environmental Council
Oregon League of Conservation Voters
Oregon Natural Desert Association
Oregon Wild
Oregonians for Wild Utah
Outdoor Afro
Outdoor Industry Association
Pacific Environment
Park County Environmental Council
Partnership for the National Trails System
Patagonia
Patuxent Tidewater Land Trust
Paula Lane Action Network (PLAN)
Pew Charitable Trusts
Philadelphia Zoo
Piedmont Environmental Council
Poder Latinx
Potomac Conservancy
Potomac Riverkeeper Network
Presbyterians for Earth Care
Rachel Carson Council
Rebel Hawaii
REI Co-op
River Alliance of Wisconsin
River Revitalization Foundation
Rockfish Valley Foundation
Rocky Mountain Wild
Round River Conservation Studies
Sachamama
Saline Indivisible
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
San Juan Citizens Alliance
Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority
Savanna Institute
Save Mount Diabo
Save Our Shores
Save Red Rock
Save the Redwoods League
Scenic America
Scenic Virginia
SE Alaska Conservation Council
Seattle Aquarium
Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition
Sierra Business Council
Sierra Club
Sierra Club Alaska
Soda Mountain Wilderness Council
South Alabama Land Trust
South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
South Carolina Wildlife Federation
Southern Maryland Audubon Society
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Starboard
Surfrider Foundation
Sustainable Agriculture Education (SAGE)
TAO
The Chaparral Lands Conservancy
The Conservation Foundation
The Conservation Fund
The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee
The Frontera Land Alliance
The Land Conservancy of New Jersey
The Mountain Pact
The Nature Conservancy
The Rewilding Institute
The Time Farms
The Trust for Public Land
The Trustees
The Wetlands Initiative
The Whale Guitar Project
The Wilderness Society
The Wildlands Conservancy
Tree Fredericksburg
Trees Forever
Tuleyome
Upper Gila Watershed Alliance
Upper Missouri Waterkeeper
Urban Ecosystem Restorations
Vermont Conservation Voters
Vet Voice Foundation
Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center
Virginia Conservation Network
Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust
Virginia League of Conservation Voters
Virginia Zoo
Waitt Institute
Washington Friends of Wild Utah
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition
Waterkeepers Chesapeake
West Virginia Rivers Coalition
Western Leaders Network
Western Resource Advocates
Western Slope Conservation Center
Whale and Dolphin Conservation
Wicomico Environmental Trust
Wild Heritage, a Project of Earth Island Institute
Wild Virginia
WILDCOAST
Wilderness Workshop
Wildlands Network
Wisconsin Conservation Voters
Women Working for Oceans (W2O)
Working Dogs for Conservation
World Wildlife Fund
Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
Zaniac LLC
Outdoor industry businesses support President Biden’s national 30x30 goal.
These organizations are:
BioLite
Burton
California Outdoor Recreation Partnership
C-Change Media
Challenge Design Innovations
ChicoBag Company/ To-Go Ware
Columbia
Concept III Textiles International
Dick’s Sporting Goods
Erictex Fashion Co., Ltd.
prAna
Public Lands
REI
The North Face
Smartwool
Snow Peak
Timberland
Trailtopia, LLC
Vans
VF Corp
Industrial Revolution
Keen
La Sportiva North America, Inc.
LifeStraw
L.L.Bean
Natives Outdoors
NEMO Equipment
New Balance
Orvis
Patagonia