Strategic Plan

• Define priority issue areas and lead or co‑lead campaigns around each.
• Engage in key planning and rulemaking processes each year with high‑quality comments, expert testimony, and letters.
• Support proactive protection initiatives in partnership with other organizations and entities.
• Seek opportunities to support new park units and resource types that more fully reflect the breadth, diversity, and richness of our nation’s cultures and histories.

• Advocate for a fully funded and staffed National Park Service –  including budget increases to cover erosion of personnel over time and to face emerging threats – while fighting against reductions in staff, hiring freezes, and budget cuts.
• Support the work of National Park Service staff in parks, programs, and offices, and help rebuild capacity.
• Respond to agency actions that lack transparency and threaten the ability of the agency to execute the mission to protect resources and provide for outstanding visitor experiences.
• Collaborate with partners and other organizations on envisioning a National Park Service for the future that provides for an exemplary federal workforce that can carry out the mission and adapt to emerging issues.
• Promote equitable hiring pathways, inclusive workplace practices, and the strengthening of diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring initiatives within the National Park Service workforce to better reflect the nation’s diverse communities and meet the agency’s mission.

• Integrate national park priorities into major public lands campaigns – including the protection of national monuments – and push back against efforts to sell-off, giveaway, or privatize public lands.
• Provide input based on scholarship and sound science to or for public land use planning and decision-making, especially those actions that affect park resources.
• Strategically align the Coalition with other credible organizations that promote the protection of the National Park System and other public lands.
• Support efforts to strengthen government-to-government relationships and collaboration with Tribal Nations.

• Develop actions and strategies to help communicate the value of the National Park System and public lands to the public, decision-makers, the media, and Congress.
• Work to cultivate and maintain productive relationships with federal agencies, Congress, governmental entities, and other stakeholder groups to help support and protect parks and public lands.
• Help foster connections and strengthen engagement by communicating the cultural, historical, and environmental significance of parks and public lands in ways that resonate with diverse audiences.

• Support transparent, science‑based policies and management that protect resources, values, and experiences.
• Advocate for budgets, programs, and staffing that support resource monitoring, data collection, planning, study, and compliance to help inform park management and decisions.
• Help to ensure our national parks and public lands continue to tell the full and complete story of our natural and cultural history through the support of scholarship grounded in rigorous academic study.

• Work toward the creation of an endowment to ensure adequate resources for ongoing stewardship, restoration, and legal defense needs.
• Work to build a robust funding network that allows for additional staff capacity to help the Coalition manage new and existing priority areas of interest.
• Continue to grow and expand recruitment to build a broader, more diverse membership base that supports the long-term protection of national parks and public lands.
• Foster a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion within the organization.
• Strategically align the Coalition with other credible organizations that promote the protection of National Parks, National Park Service programs, and the conservation of federal lands.

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