About Us - What is PLA?

Our Vision

We work for the day when America’s public lands are understood and appreciated, preserved and conserved and enjoyed by all. 

Our Mission

• We CONNECT public lands partners not only to agency leaders and socially conscious corporations but also to one another in a vibrant peer network.

• We STRENGTHEN our community through targeted education, training and our other capacity building programs.

• We REPRESENT our members' interests with elected officials and policy makers.

Who We Are

The Public Lands Alliance has worked to foster and advance its members, the nonprofit partners of America's public lands, since 1977. We are a unified, powerful community dedicated to the preservation, enrichment and enjoyment of America's most treasured places.

Our members serve over 675 public lands sites nationwide in cooperation with their land management agency partners, and they raise $250 million annually to support those lands.