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Logging in National Parks Has Arrived: We Didn’t Get Here Overnight Logging is now happening in our national parks. You heard that right! Yosemite, Rocky Mountain, Bryce, Sequoia-Kings Canyon, just to name a few.

Logging in National Parks Has Arrived: We Didn’t Get Here Overnight

Logging is now happening in our national parks. You heard that right! Yosemite, Rocky Mountain, Bryce, Sequoia-Kings Canyon, just to name a few.

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Extension denial leaves Wyoming ranch owner a week to convince SCOTUS to hear corner crossing case - WyoFile Eshelman has until July 16 to state why the court should consider the corner-crossing conflict between public access to public land and private property rights.

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Where Fire Heals and Mismanagement Hurts: Notes from Sequoia Country By John Muir Project, Our Public Lands Podcast, Western Watersheds Project, and Wilderness Watch

“Fire is the source of new life and regeneration. It is not something to be feared. It is something to celebrate.”

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Battles over public lands loom even after sell-off proposal fails • Utah News Dispatch After a public land sales proposal was defeated, experts say federal lands face other threats from President Donald Trump’s administration.

Battles over #publiclands loom even after sell-off proposal fails

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#34 - Sequoia Gate: Government Deception and Natural Regeneration in the Groves Listen now | Giant sequoia groves are a national and international treasure, and have survived for 100s of millions of years on their own... They don't need our help.

Listen Now (Don’t miss this one!)

#Sequoia Gate: Government Deception and Natural Regeneration in the Groves w Dr. Chad Hanson

#publiclands #nationalparks #wilderness

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Indeed! It’s full of horrible things for public lands.

Breaking: Mike Lee's Public Land Sale Plan Is Dead Sources in Washington D.C. say the public-land provision in the Senate reconciliation bill is officially dead thanks to pressure from hunters and conservationists.

Breaking: Mike Lee’s #PublicLand Sale Plan Is Dead

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He’s going to keep rewriting his provision to try get it past the parliamentarian. This would set a truly dangerous precedent if passed into law. Our public lands are not a bank account for the wealthy.

Why We Can’t Log Our Way Out of Wildfires Trying to prevent forest fires with more logging may only make them worse, fire ecologists say. Will the federal government listen?

Why We Can’t Log Our Way Out of Wildfires

Trying to prevent forest fires with more logging may only make them worse, fire ecologists say. Will the federal government listen?

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Trump administration to kill roadless forest protections Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Western governors she’s rescinding the regulations from 2001 that keep 58.5 million acres of national forests

So many reasons that rescinding the roadless rule is a catastrophe, but, to make one obvious point, the given logic is dumb. Trump Admin claims we need roads for fire mitigation, yet vast majority of fires *occur* near roads. They're exacerbating risk. #roadecology

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Putting Western Lands Up For Sale Highly Unpopular U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah single-handedly appears to have produced what just might be the most unified, and broadly dispersed, opposition to anti-conservation legislation ever considered by Congress.

“U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah single-handedly appears to have produced what just might be the most unified, and broadly dispersed, opposition to anti-conservation legislation ever considered by Congress.”

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The U.S. Senate is currently considering a budget reconciliation bill that quietly includes language that could devastate our public lands. It would:
- Make over 250 million acres of public land eligible for sale
- Mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and BLM land

Keep calling your senators and tell them no land sales! Better yet, tell them to drop all of the #publiclands provisions.

Don’t let the land grabbers getaway with this!

What a corrupt shitshow…

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The Ethics of Resistance “A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against the government.” So said Ed Abbey. This holds true, especially now as an autocratic narcissist

"'A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against the government.' So said Ed Abbey. This holds true, especially now as an autocratic narcissist has somehow become the president of this nation, and is intent on the continued pillaging …."

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We’re looking forward to seeing everyone out there tomorrow! ✊💚

Senate Republicans want to sell 3 million acres of public land The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

Senate Republicans want to sell 3 million acres of public land.

The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

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#Policy #Politics #trees #Land #Wildfire #Trump

E&E News: Trump topples $1 billion Columbia River settlement deal The agreement signed by the Biden administration halted a long-running lawsuit over hydropower dams and declining salmon and steelhead populations.

Great.

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#30 - Public Lands Sales Back in the Budget Bill Listen now | Apparently, Senate Republicans didn’t get the memo: selling off public lands is wildly unpopular. Millions of federal public lands could be disposed of if Senator Mike Lee gets his way.

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Apparently, Senate Republicans didn’t get the memo: selling off public lands is wildly unpopular. Millions of federal public lands could be disposed of if Senator Mike Lee gets his way.
#publiclands #publiclandowner

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New provision in Senate budget bill could put Wyoming public lands up for sale - WyoFile Land sales would raise federal revenue and open up parcels for housing, according to Utah senator’s plan. But critics say it would result in the loss of lands now used for hunting and outdoor recreati...

New provision in Senate budget bill could put Wyoming public lands up for sale - WyoFile wyofile.com/new-provisio...

Senate Republicans want to sell 3 million acres of public land - High Country News The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

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The Myth of the Cowboy and Its Enduring Influence on Public Policy • The Revelator Livestock ranchers receive undue praise and tax dollars while they disregard damage to life on the planet, in a political climate that prioritizes profit.

Our latest op-ed explores how livestock ranchers receive undue praise and tax dollars while they disregard damage to life on the planet, in a political climate that prioritizes profit. @therevelator.org therevelator.org/myth-cowboy-...

DOJ finds Trump can abolish areas protected as national monuments An opinion released by the Office of Legal Counsel concludes the president can abolish national monuments declared by past administrations.

DOJ finds Trump can abolish areas protected as national monuments
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RELEASE: Boundary Waters removed from House Reconciliation bill

Boundary Waters removed from House reconciliation bill
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The hosts of the true-crime podcast “National Park After Dark” discuss the dangers public lands face — and how people can stand up to protect them. therevelator.org/public-lands...

No amount of human intervention like prescribed burning or putting firefighters on the front lines would make one bit of difference. These fires are climate-driven and are well beyond our control.

US Policies are a Race-to-the Bottom for Nations Trying to End Forest Losses by 2030 Increasing domestic logging, whether in the US or anywhere else, is a race to the bottom to feed the endless consumption of wood products with increasingly dire ecological and climate consequences. Ra...

"Increasing domestic logging [on US federal lands, as ordered under current administration] is a race to the bottom to feed the endless consumption of wood products with increasingly dire ecological and climate consequences." 🌏 www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/04/u...

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has announced his intent to reintroduce a Public Lands Sell-off Amendment, similar to the version recently rejected by the House. Stay tuned for an Advocacy Action coming soon!

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He Built an Airstrip on Protected Land. Now He’s in Line to Lead the Forest Service.

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