April 3 – Trump’s 2027 budget proposal would gut key conservation programs, cut BLM staffing, eliminate US Forest Service research, and reduce funding for national parks, wildlife refuges, and USFWS state & tribal grants.
April 16 – The Senate votes to overturn protections from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, ending a 20-year mining ban.
April 22 – On Earth Day of all days, anti-conservation interests in Congress planned a floor vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on H.R. 1897, a bill that would gut the Endangered Species Act.
April 26 – Trump fires all 22 members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation.
April 27 – Trump withdraws nomination of Scott Socha, a hospitality executive, as director of the National Park Service – after 75 days of public pressure.
