As we head towards the close of the year, we at Friends of Avi Kwa Ame are full of gratitude for this beautiful part of the earth that we help advocate for and protect, and for all of you who create the community of support we rely on to make this work possible. Nature provides us with solace and inspiration, and while 2025 has been a very challenging year for the environment, public lands, and non-profit funding, we are proud to have set and met ambitious goals for bettering Avi Kwa Ame National Monument for the benefit of all. Here is a review of what we have accomplished over the past two years.

For 2026, we are continuing to dream big and are introducing six initiatives that will serve as a roadmap for our work in the next few years. While they will take significant time, energy and financial support to accomplish, we feel honored to give this landscape the respect it deserves through these projects. For Giving Tuesday, we’ll add to the funds we have been raising through our Fall Fundraiser (including our Desert Delights Gala Event at Walking Box Ranch). Help us achieve a starting goal of $25,000 to get us moving on these initiatives in the new year.

If you feel gratitude for Avi Kwa Ame, you can show your support in any amount. When you donate, you can choose where you’d like your support to go, or support our general fund and we’ll use the donation where we need it most. Thanks so much for your help as we work to protect, improve access, and tell the story of Avi Kwa Ame National Monument.

Help us protect Avi Kwa Ame's 506,000 acres of fragile desert ecosystem and cultural sites, while developing and maintaining resources for the public (like parking and camp site demarcation, area clean ups, trailhead info, directional signage and maps) throughout the monument.

Support our work in bringing the monument's stories to life, through professional research, developing interpretive signage and displays, oral history projects, and our yearly history, science and nature journal, The Searchlight Gold Beam.

Public lands are currently under threat, and we work hard to engage the public and our representatives in protecting our national monument and its resources. Support this important work to safeguard Avi Kwa Ame for future generations.

Help us on the journey of transforming Walking Box Ranch into a well-maintained and informative historical site, and a visitors center for the monument. We have a long way to go with repairs, maintenance and creating interpretive resources for the public.

Avi Kwa Ame is blessed with beautiful dark night skies and views of the Milky Way Galaxy. Help us protect this valuable resource for the future as we apply to become an International Dark Sky Park. This project includes regularly hosting astronomy events, measuring light levels, creating dark sky viewing areas around the monument, and educating the public on the role darkness plays in the health of plants, animals, and ecosystems.

Support our monthly Walking Box ranch tours and history, science, arts and nature events in the monument.

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By Friends of Avi Kwa Ame

This Giving Tuesday, support the Friends of Avi Kwa Ame

Support our initiatives and help us protect and improve access to Avi Kwa Ame National Monument.