Protect & Conserve the Land

Meaningful stewardship requires listening, learning, and relationship-building. Read reflections from Access Fund’s recent community event centered on Bears Ears and Indigenous leadership.

The Bureau of Land Management has repealed the Public Lands Rule, weakening a key framework that helped balance conservation, recreation, and land health across millions of acres of public land. For climbers, access depends on far more than whether a cliff remains open—it relies on sustainable approaches, campsites, roads, wildlife habitat, cultural resources, and the surrounding landscapes that make climbing areas possible in the first place. We’re breaking down what the repeal means for climbing stewardship, access, and the long-term management of some of America’s most important climbing landscapes—and how Access Fund will continue working to protect them.

Access Fund is pleased to announce over $40,000 in new climbing conservation grants to climbing advocates around the country. Our fifteen awardees will advance new projects in climbing access protection, educational signage, human waste management, and trail accessibility, along with other general climbing area infrastructure improvements.