The Next Era of American Conservation
As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, it’s time to add a new chapter to America’s conservation legacy, with private lands, market-based tools, and bottom-up approaches at the center.
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Ground Shift is building a shared space for rethinking the future of America’s public lands, waters, and ocean. If you’re imagining new possibilities for the path ahead, we’d love to hear from you. Get in touch.
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The Future of Common Ground
The status quo has been so thoroughly shattered that we have no choice but to forge a new consensus for how we manage our lands and waters.
Ground Shift promotes bold, cross-partisan solutions for the future of America’s public lands and waters.
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Essays
Standing for What We Stand On
A call to embrace systems thinking and diversity in land management
Reimagining Endangered Species Conservation in a Time of Crisis
The Endangered Species Act brought U.S. wildlife back from the brink, but new pressures—from a changing climate to anti-science ideology in Washington—threaten nature as never before. Instead of simply defending the status quo, we need new ideas, smart reforms, and a bold vision of abundant nature.
American Exceptionalism and Our Public Lands: The Case for a New Public Lands Law Review Commission
Now is the time for Congress to form a bipartisan commission to rethink and renew the laws, policies, and agencies governing America’s public lands.
Fixing One Byzantine Process Would Return Reservation Lands to Tribes and Improve Landscape Health
A law from 1887 broke up lands within Indian reservations, creating a “checkerboard” pattern and making it very difficult for Tribes to manage their lands. There is a fix for this.