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~ Podcast ~ Conversations with subject matter experts and activists from across the country who are working to protect and advocate for our public lands and their wildlife, wilderness, and cultural values. *Opinions are my own*
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Another employee put it more bluntly: “They left us as sitting ducks for Trump 2.” What gives, Haaland and Stone-Manning? www.hcn.org/articles/fed...

If indeed true, the provision in the budget bill that would have sold public lands has been dropped this evening. Thanks to everyone who worked to oppose this BS. www.themeateater.com/conservation...

New estimates now put public lands sales and transfers at around 1.5 million acres. www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...

Public lands.

In America, NGOs are foundational to civil society. No qualified organization should feel that their tax exempt status could be yanked for political reasons. This is deeply un-American and dangerous indeed. Congress is failing us. www.stopgovernmentcensorship.org/press-releas...

This is what “ecological thinning” of our national forests looks like. The entire understory is removed, slash piled, topped with plastic, and will be burned later (plastic and all). Let’s just call it what it is, mmmkay? It’s logging. L O G G I N G

Listen Now! New episode with Matt Rinella. Hunters are their own worst enemies. Dead animal photos, trophy hunting, big egos... Don't feed the beast. And no, nobody cares that you're "sponsored." open.substack.com/pub/ourpubli...

Fire Doesn't Care About Fences, But Congress Keeps Building Them open.substack.com/pub/johnmuir... Read and share our new substack publication by our Policy & Advocacy Director, Jenn! And feel free to subscribe while you're over there ➕😋

"Public lands writ large, are more valuable to Americans’ collective identity and expression of freedom than they are as real estate that can be sold or commodities that can be extracted." theconversation.com/why-protecti...

"With the continuous churn of anti-climate and environmental attacks, it’s no surprise that many people feel worn out, beaten, overwhelmed, helpless, and overpowered. This is #burnout. It is not to be ignored." @therevelator.org therevelator.org/burnout-envi...

Transfer, Sale Of Public Lands Is No Longer Just A Threat -- It’s A Reality cowboystatedaily.com/2025/05/12/g...

New Reconciliation Bill is a Billionaire Land Grab That Sacrifices Alaska and Silences the Public alaskawild.org/blog/new-rec...

Trump is laying the groundwork to privatize America’s national parks www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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‘Active Management’ Harms Forests - and it’s About to Get a Whole Lot Worse therevelator.org/active-manag...

Using the fear of wildfires, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management are spending billions of taxpayer dollars to intentionally burn millions of acres of National Forests and BLM lands. www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/06/g...

Listen Now! #26 - The Worst Public Lands Bill in History? w/ Wes Siler 1/2 Million Acres of Your Public Lands Might Soon Be Up For Sale Thanks to House Republicans @wessiler.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

The "Fix Our Forests" Act isn't about saving towns; it's about saving the timber industry. The Senate hearing from yesterday gave us a master class in public deception dressed up as wildfire safety. Read our full response: johnmuirproject.org/2025/05/the-...

No, @klobuchar.senate.gov, not everyone can agree that we need more "active forest management." FOFA will make us less safe from wildfire while destroying forest ecosystems. Urgent! Read Dr. DelaSalla's testimony. @padilla.senate.gov @senatorhick.govpeeps.us evergreenmagazine.com/content/file...

Bills in Congress like the deceptively named “Fix Our Forests” Act are trojan horses for the timber and livestock industries. Listening to the Natural Resources committee hearing today made me sick. #Democrats are complicit. @morethanjustparks.bsky.social substack.com/@morethanjus...

Today, Republicans are pushing the most extreme anti-environment bill in American history – betraying our public lands, clean air and water, and the American people in the process.

Listen Now! Interview with @morethanjustparks.bsky.social @willpattiz.bsky.social about the ever evolving threats to #publiclands and #nationalparks podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Listen Now! Interview with Dr. Chad Hanson of @johnmuirproject.bsky.social about threats to our precious sequoia forests by rogue land management agencies. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

House Republicans Propose Millions In Cuts To National Park Service Budget www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/05/hous...

A stunning rainbow over #publiclands in #Oregon taken over the winter. Hoping for brighter days ahead as we trudge forward into the unknown.

Who woulda thought?! open.substack.com/pub/chrisdan...

“The budget also proposes turning some national park sites over to states and removing them from the National Park System.” www.npca.org/articles/842...

"[Dr. Chad] Hanson believes wildfire efforts should focus on hardening homes and defensible space, with prescribed and natural burns as the best forest strategy." spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-...

The Trump admin is chaos in a nutshell — and America’s treasured public lands are taking a massive blow. Their attempts to privatize parks and plunder them for dirty energy won’t only damage national park operations this summer, it will rob future generations of these wonders.

This coastal #oldgrowth #forest on #publiclands is what the timber industry commonly refers to as “shelf stock.” I.e. our forests just waiting to be cut for private profit.

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A must read. They’re coming for our #publiclands.. open.substack.com/pub/morethan... @morethanjustparks.bsky.social

“A reorganization and consolidation effort is expected to begin within two weeks and employees are already heading for the exits in droves.” www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Trump Administration Promotes Unauthorized Mining in Mojave National Preserve www.npca.org/articles/796...

you'll want to read this one the doc creates a framework for squeezing revenue from the federal estate, opening up new lands to drilling/extraction while reducing land holdings and slashing enviro regs, w/ a top goal to “restore American prosperity” also lists “right-size monuments”

Excited to say that we just submitted a Second Edition of Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling to the publisher! Updates on concepts, models, applications, and code. Plus, two new chapters are included! Marie-Josee and I hope it is helpful to the ecological and conservation community!

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

“Far from being lifeless, the areas affected by the 2013 Rim fire now support a rich array of species, from woodpeckers to rare flowers. The real threat is logging disguised as “restoration,” said Jennifer Mamola with the John Muir Project. www.latimes.com/opinion/lett...

DOGE's Man at DOI Tyler Hassen is an Ivy League graduate and energy executive working on behalf of DOGE at the Interior Department. www.publicdomain.media/p/doges-man-...

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This Presidential Action impacts FWS directly-including wildlife refuges. It directs #SecCookieMonster (among others) to provide for the use and jurisdiction by the Department of Defense over such Federal lands…that are reasonably necessary to enable military…including border-barrier construction.”

Yet Another Illegal Trump Action: “Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting” Executive Order Defies Law www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

“At one of the most crucial moments for the future of our public lands, waters, and wildlife, Congress is abandoning ship and handing over control to the cattle and timber barons who got us into this mess in the first place,” westernwatersheds.org/2025/04/sena...

Trump and Musk’s DOGE ‘functionally destroying’ historic Yellowstone grizzly science team - WyoFile wyofile.com/trump-and-mu...

Such an insightful presentation by our good folk friend, Aaron Mair, former President of the Sierra Club ⤵️ youtu.be/_Cp7_OVPSAw?...