Amish Shah, an emergency medicine doctor, has served five years in the Arizona state legislature. He will put Arizona families first and will protect Arizona's public lands, air and water.

 

Vote Amish Shah for Arizona’s 1st Congressional District to send a public lands advocate to Congress!

 

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The 2026 midterm elections will be a defining moment for public lands in Arizona and across America — which are currently facing unprecedented attacks by Congress and the Trump administration.

 

Just recently, the administration slashed Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by more than 90%. And millions more acres of public lands are being sold off to mining companies, stripped of critical protections and ravaged by industrial development.

 

That means your vote can help protect Arizona’s public lands for generations to come. Whoever we elect will make key decisions about the future of our public lands — affecting our families’ health and safety, our communities and our nation’s beloved outdoor spaces. These decisions deserve your input!

 

If you care about our nation’s public lands and waters, make sure you’re an informed public lands voter this election. Here are four issues at stake:

 

1. Selling off America’s public lands for mining, drilling and other industrial development

 

The administration is attempting to direct the Bureau of Land Management to lease all land requested by oil and gas companies on more than 200 million acres of public lands, including lands next to dozens of national parks, within community drinking water protection areas and in areas with other economic, recreational, natural or cultural importance. Essentially, they want to allow oil and gas companies to do whatever they want with our public lands.

 

A pro-conservation Congress could pass the Local Input Act, which would address these threats by requiring that the Bureau of Land Management meaningfully involve the public and state, Tribal and local government officials prior to determining whether to offer certain parcels of land for oil or gas leasing.

 

2. Protecting 45 million acres of roadless forests across the U.S.

 

Right now, our nation’s forests are under attack. The Trump administration is attempting to repeal the U.S. Forest Service’s Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which protects 45 million acres of wild forests from logging, road construction and other development — including 1.2 million acres in Arizona.

 

Repealing the Roadless Rule would endanger communities and wildlife habitats — and increase the risk of wildfires. The Wilderness Society’s scientists recently found that fire ignitions are 4X more likely near roads than in roadless forests.

 

Congress can take action to preserve these forests by passing the Roadless Area Conservation Act, which will make permanent the decades-long rule that keeps commercial development out of our nation’s last wild forests.

 

3. Keeping our communities’ drinking water safe

 

25.7 million Americans get their drinking water from watersheds in national forests and roadless areas, which are now under threat by Trump’s actions. That means your drinking water could be at risk if public lands like our national monuments and forests are opened up to drilling, mining and other development.

 

The BLM just held its largest Colorado lease sale in recent history — enabling oil drilling across sensitive wildlife areas and near a reservoir that supplies drinking water to more than 400,000 people. The same scenario could play out in Arizona communities.

 

4. Defending against attacks on America’s national monuments

 

The Trump administration has gutted protections for more than 90% of the area of two beloved national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. These treasured public lands protect wildlife, cultural and Tribal heritage and the freedom to explore for future generations.

 

Our national monuments protect wildlife, cultural and Tribal heritage and the freedom to explore our nation’s wild lands. They belong to all of us, and they should be handed down to future generations, not handed over to drilling and mining interests.

 

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Remember, your vote is your responsibility — to your family, your community and future generations. Don’t be left out of these crucial decisions about the future of our communities and our public lands.

 

Make a voting plan and make sure you’re ready to be a public lands voter!