🇺🇸United States

The first urban Indigenous women-led land trust in the US is quietly buying and receiving back parcels of Ohlone territory across the San Francisco Bay Area, acre by acre.

A grassroots effort to stitch together the largest nature reserve in the continental United States across Montana's shortgrass and mixed-grass prairie.

Nebraska ranchers formed the state's first prescribed burn association, pooling equipment and labor to torch encroaching cedar trees and bring their grasslands back to life.

A collaborative of Arizona-New Mexico borderlands ranchers invented "grassbanking" — trading grazing rest on drought-hit ranches for conservation easements — to keep nearly a million acres of open range intact and productive.

Borderlands Restoration Network installs thousands of erosion-control structures across the Sky Islands drylands of the US-Mexico borderlands to heal gullied land and recharge groundwater.

A national climbers' organization turns crag days into conservation days, rallying volunteers for litter clean-ups, trail work and land purchases that keep climbing areas wild.

Volunteers tear up unused asphalt and concrete across Portland, turning parking lots and schoolyards back into soil, trees and community green space.

The Amah Mutsun Land Trust is training tribal members as wildland firefighters to bring cultural burning back to California's Central Coast, lighting the first fire of its scale in the Santa Cruz Mountains in roughly two centuries.