Our Platform

Sagebrush is unique: we don’t mandate a national platform for our members. Instead, we empower our chapters, focusing on four key areas:

  • Land

    We protect the dirt beneath our feet: working ranchlands, timber country, and back-country trails alike. Our land must stay open, productive, and truly public for the next generation to walk, hunt, and work.

  • Water

    Clean, reliable water is the West’s lifeblood. We champion local stewardship that keeps rivers fishable, fields irrigated, and aquifers healthy. We need to ensure our land has access to water for our grandchildren.

  • Energy

    A strong America powers itself. We support responsible, home-grown energy that respects the land, keeps lights on, and fuels rural economies without surrendering our values.

  • Wildlife

    Thriving wildlife is a mark of good stewardship. From mule deer migration routes to sage-grouse habitat, we promote science-based management and the sportsman’s ethic to ensure herds and flocks remain abundant and wild.

The Sagebrush Institute has one job: equip state chapters to win conservative policy fights on their own communities. We will tackle national issues where need be, but otherwise focus on providing the organizational framework, resources, and media reach for local volunteers to tailor solutions so they work.

  • Local first. Chapters choose priorities.

  • Shared resources. Legislative research, bill-drafting help, and rapid-response comms are on tap for every state team.

  • No top-down decrees. Guardrails are simple: principled stewardship, fiscal honesty, and radical transparency. Beyond that, our platform comes from the ground up.

  • Networked power. Victories and lessons learned in one state move fast across the network, turning isolated wins into national momentum.

In short, the Institute exists to amplify your work—not replace it.