ACHIEVEMENTS

Not 1 More Acre! with its allies mobilize opposition to land and training expansion at Piñon Canyon, the epicenter of planned Joint Forces training, and to military expansion across southern Colorado and northern New Mexico at every level of democracy — community organizations, county commissions, state legislatures, the US House of Representatives, the US Senate and the Federal Judiciary.

Grassland Trust raises awareness about the environmental, cultural and economic impacts of the military industrial congressional complex on our nation. Sharing our love of the uniquely important grasslands of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, Grassland Trust and its allies organize and distribute material to educate the public about the rich natural and cultural heritage across the entire vast, diverse and stunningly beautiful region held under threat by the Pentagon.

In 2007, Not 1 More Acre! fostered an overwhelming (383-34) bipartisan Congressional vote to ban funding for any activity related to expansion at the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site, a ban that Not 1 More Acre! has successfully petitioned Congress to renew each year since.

Not 1 More Acre! works with allies to advance public policy that ends military expansion across southern Colorado and northern New Mexico and strengthens public disclosure, environmental and cultural protection laws.

In 2009 Not 1 More Acre! won a Federal Court Order under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) enjoining the Army from expanding training at the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site. Not 1 More Acre! provides unrelenting legal defense against violations of the court order to uphold the integrity of laws banishing Transformation from Pinon Canyon.

In 2011, when the four-year-old funding ban prohibiting military expansion at Piñon Canyon was stolen away from the appropriations bill, Not 1 More Acre! alerted opponents across the nation. Thousands of taxpayers stood up and spoke out demanding restoration of the Congressional funding ban. Their swift and sure action caused the House to restore the funding ban for another year.

Not 1 More Acre! and Grassland Trust actively engage Freedom of Information Act requests for records that serve the public interest by revealing government’s plans, contracts and activities advancing military takeover of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico including the last intact shortgrass prairie remaining in the American Great Plains.