MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL & ECONOMIC RESILIENCE
Through an innovative lens The Mountain Pact, which was founded in 2014, educates, empowers, and mobilizes local elected officials in over 80 Western mountain communities with outdoor recreation based economies to speak with a collective voice on federal climate, public lands, and outdoor recreation policy.
““The Mountain Pact has been a particularly effective partner to the town of Basalt in prior initiatives that will protect federal lands, will protect biodiversity, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and they are an organization and institution that deserves our support.””
NEWS
The Mountain Pact released a report that highlights examples from all eleven Western states on what Western mountain communities are doing to conserve nature and contribute to the America the Beautiful Initiative. The report offers recommendations for on-the-ground conservation work, policy recommendations, as well as new strategies and projects to help achieve the goals of the America the Beautiful effort.
Western U.S. local elected officials from The Mountain Pact network were honored to meet with Secretary Deb Haaland & U.S. Department of the Interior officials in May 2021 to discuss the community-based & inclusive America The Beautiful Initiative & what protecting more lands & waters can mean for communities. We thank Madam Secretary for taking so much time to meet with us and look forward to doing more to protect our lands, waters, and wildlife through this locally-led and collaborative effort.
See Town/City/County Resolutions in support of the pause to new oil and gas leasing on public lands and protecting 30% of our lands & waters by 2030 through the America the Beautiful Initiative - Public Lands Conservation.
Letter to President Biden signed by over 140 Mountain Pact network Western U.S. local elected officials.
Read more about us in Outside Magazine, LA Times and High Country News + get involved.
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