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Founded in 1989, Forest Guardians has emerged as a results-driven group with a proven record of defending and preserving threatened southwestern wildlife and ecosystems. Our approach to conservation features a potent combination of scientific analysis, strategic litigation to enforce existing environmental laws, and efforts to reform misguided public polices.
Our Mission
To protect and restore the native biological diversity and watersheds of the American Southwest; educate and enlist citizens to support protection of the forests, rivers, deserts and grasslands of this arid region; advocate for the principles of conservation biology in plans to restore degraded ecosystems and watersheds; enforce and strengthen environmental laws; support communities in efforts to protect their land and to practice and promote sustainable use of natural resources.
Our Activism
Forest Guardians is leading the fight to protect and restore the forests, rivers, grasslands, wildlife and wilderness of the Southwest, Southern Rockies and Southern Great Plains. We believe that the diversity of wildlife, plants and ecosystems, and our untrammeled wild spaces, hold the key to the rehabilitation of our impoverished region Our economic and cultural success are inextricably tied to a healthy land.
Forest Guardians celebrated 15 years of defending wildness on September 30th, 2004. We’re looking forward to many more years of successes and challenges at the vanguard of the environmental movement—redefining the public debate about wildlands conservation and preservation. Read about our success..
Our vision is strong. Our staff is the catalyzing agent— building the political mandate for environmental protection. Challenges to the environmental movement have never been greater. Forest Guardians is ready to meet these challenges. If you care about wild forests, free-flowing rivers, untrammeled deserts, and the creatures that inhabit these beautiful places, support Forest Guardians. We are here to ensure protection and restoration of our last wild ecosystems.
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