Looking for a way to resist?

Here’s something simple and immediate you can do to fight back against one of Trump’s many outrageous actions – his attack on our public lands, including our national parks and national monuments.

You can pre-order a new book of photography called Monumental Beauty that shows the natural beauty and biodiversity we need to protect. 100% of the money will go directly and immediately to grassroots organizing to resist the attack on our public lands.

Trump specifically targeted the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in southern Oregon and northern California during his first term but was slowed by public resistance. Project 2025 has singled out the Monument as a first target to be gutted in Trump’s second term. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told reporters on April 25 that the Trump administration is conducting “a thorough review” to determine the future of all national monuments.

The Monumental Beauty Project: Raising Funds and Public Awareness

Monumental Beauty serves three purposes.

It shares in a hard-cover, coffee-table book 132 beautifully reproduced photographs of mine that highlight the birds, butterflies, ancient waterfalls, towering trees, wildflowers, and animals that grace the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument that is home to more than 3,500 different plants, mammals, and other living beings.

It raises money. Thanks to major donors to this project, 100% of sales from Monumental Beauty will go to the nonprofit Soda Mountain Wilderness Council (named after a prominent feature in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument). For 40 years, the Council has been leading the fight to establish and protect the Monument and they are gearing up for a new round of resistance.

It raises public awareness of the attack on our public lands. National monument designation generally prohibits logging for commercial purposes, new grazing, mining, or other development. But the Trump administration has sent federal agencies a series of executive orders directing that profits of logging, mining, and oil and gas companies be prioritized over protection of public lands like the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

Monumental Beauty includes a foreword by Don Gentry, former chairman of the Klamath Tribes, who writes: “Today, protection of the land is urgent as climate change puts our watersheds and forests, and even our homes and our culture, at risk. We have always been one with the land and always will be. The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is one important way to help us protect it.”

Stanley Smith, formerly of the Getty Museum, adds, “Throughout history, photographers like Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter have played an important role in promoting and protecting America’s public lands. Monumental Beauty continues that tradition with these artful images of a very special national monument.”

Monumental Beauty will be published on June 9, the 25th anniversary of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

You can pre-order it here for $19.95 – with 100% of the funds going immediately and directly to the fight to protect our public lands.

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