About Public Lands Watch

Public Lands Watch is a fact-based registry documenting active and proposed threats — mining, drilling, logging, and construction — to American public lands, along with the historical and cultural record of how each site came to be protected in the first place.

Who runs this

This project is independently maintained. It is not affiliated with, funded by, or operated on behalf of any of the government agencies, companies, or advocacy organizations named or cited in its case files. Every organization quoted or cited as a source is credited by name in that page's Sources section; being cited does not imply endorsement of this project by that organization.

Funding

This site carries no advertising and accepts no payment, sponsorship, or in-kind support from any company, agency, or advocacy organization named in its case files. If that changes, this page will disclose it by name.

Methodology

Every case file follows a fixed template and sourcing hierarchy — see Sourcing Standards for the full policy. In short: primary government and legal sources first, established reporting second, advocacy-organization materials used only for framing and traced back to underlying documents where possible. No claim runs without a citation a reader can click and verify themselves.

Corrections

Every page carries its own dated corrections log. If you find an error — a wrong figure, an outdated status, a broken source link — it will be corrected visibly, not silently edited. See Contribute for how to submit one.

Reuse

Journalists, researchers, and other organizations are welcome to cite, link to, or build on this registry's data. A machine-readable export of every case file is available at /data/registry.json (JSON) and /data/registry.csv (CSV).

Contact

For corrections, tips on additional threatened sites, or press inquiries, use the form below. Messages are forwarded privately — your address won't be published or shared.

Your forwarding email is never shown on this page or in the site's source code.