To say 2025 has been a bear of a year for protecting our public lands is an understatement –

at times it’s felt more like a bear attack!

If Americans lose our public lands to short-sighted and profit-motivated sell-offs, then outdoors enthusiasts like us lose much of what we love, and the single most critical element to our way of life in the American West. We lose our family fishing, hunting, birding, hiking, and camping lifestyles. We lose access to the beauty of Arizona’s incredible landscapes. Our wildlife loses its home. And everyone loses the ecosystem services provided by our public lands – the clean water and air that depend upon a healthy, intact environment.

When you support the Arizona Wildlife Federation (AWF) – right now – as we step into our 2025-26 fiscal year, you support the broad, deep, and passionate defense of our public lands and wildlife that have consumed our staff and many partners’ efforts this entire year.

You’ll find the highlights of our work this past year in our Impact Report: real numbers, real wins, and real momentum to protect Arizona’s public lands, habitat, and wildlife. From boots on the ground to voices at the Capitol, from kids discovering the outdoors to public education — it all fuels the future of conservation in Arizona. Every step we take together is a promise to the land and the future of the great outdoors.

The bear is tenacious, and so is AWF. If you believe in the work we do, we hope you’ll make a gift to help us keep Arizona wild for generations to come.

Learn More About AWF's Work in the Last Year!