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  1. A federal judge recently transferred 1.38 million acres of protected public land to the state of Alaska for good. #publiclands

    morethanjustparks.substack.com

  2. A federal judge recently transferred 1.38 million acres of protected public land to the state of Alaska for good. #publiclands

    morethanjustparks.substack.com

  3. A federal judge recently transferred 1.38 million acres of protected public land to the state of Alaska for good. #publiclands

    morethanjustparks.substack.com

  4. A federal judge recently transferred 1.38 million acres of protected public land to the state of Alaska for good. #publiclands

    morethanjustparks.substack.com

  5. Redwood National Park added a mile of trail under old growth California coastal redwoods, so I had to go and see these new trees. Bonus getting to look around 'O Rew Redwoods Gateway.
    Find all the details here: valhikes.blogspot.com/2026/08/

    #California #HumboldtCounty #RedwoodStateAndNationalParks #RedwoodNationalPark #hiking #redwoods #trees #nature #publicLands #dayhike #landscape #hike #outside

  6. Twenty-Five Dollars and a Signature

    The mark is called a freeze brand. Liquid nitrogen chills an iron until the cold kills the color in the hair, and the government writes a registration code in white along the left side of the neck of every wild horse it removes from the range. The brand exists so that a mustang can be identified as a protected animal of the United States for the rest of its life, at any distance, in any light. In August of 2026, the place where you can read those white characters most clearly is the dirt lot of a livestock auction yard, on horses standing quietly beside the trucks that run south. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/08/24/twen

  7. The announcement comes as the #Trump admin has aggressively pursued opening #PublicLands to the #energy industry. This includes shrinking #NationalMonuments in #Utah, which would allow for #oil & #gas development, & reportedly pursuing the same in #Alaska, all while rolling back rules around bond requirements, public comments & procedural timelines around those lease sales.

    #law #EnvironmentalLaw #FossilFuels #conservation #forests #wildlife #ecosystems #Ohio #WayneNationalForest #ClimateChange

  8. Protect Groundwater from Arsenic at Grand Canyon Uranium Mine
    Arsenic levels are rising in a uranium mine's monitoring well near the #GrandCanyon. The mining company is asking Arizona regulators to raise the well's #arsenic limit at Pinyon Plain #uranium mine (formerly Canyon Mine).
    #PublicLands

    Protect Grand Canyon Groundwat...

  9. Protect Groundwater from Arsenic at Grand Canyon Uranium Mine
    **Arsenic levels are rising in a uranium mine's monitoring well near the Grand Canyon.** The mining company is asking Arizona regulators to raise the well's #arsenic limit at Pinyon Plain #uranium mine (formerly Canyon Mine). Raising the limit could put precious #GrandCanyon region groundwater at risk.
    #PublicLands
    grandcanyontrust.quorum.us/cam

  10. Three things I'm worried about at our national parks - overcrowding from shutting down reservations, rewriting history, and overcharging international visitors. I put my keyboard on blast in my latest for the Perceptive Travel Blog:

    perceptivetravel.com/blog/2026

    #travel #tourism #RoadTrip #FindYourPark #GetOutside #PublicLands

  11. Drinking Water for Millions Is Threatened as Trump Targets National Monuments

    About 83 percent of water passing through public lands has no other protection besides the monument designations.

    murica.website/2025/12/drinkin

  12. The Case for Returning U.S. #PublicLands to #IndigenousPeople

    by Joe Whittle, Mar 6, 2025

    "Since the start of Trump’s second term, his administration has fired thousands of federal workers across multiple public lands agencies, including the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The effects of this are vast: It’s going to have a profoundly negative impact on the environment and the way millions of Americans enjoy public lands, cause immeasurable harm to America’s wildest places, and devastate the economies built around them.

    "After serving 12 years as a backcountry wilderness ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, I'm convinced there is an alternative: the U.S. needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. In fact, I believe that might be the only way to save our parks and forests from corporate privatization and destruction, as well as preserve public access to them. If the U.S. won’t properly care for its public lands, why not return them to their original caretakers?

    "This isn’t a new idea. #NativeAmericans argued that treaty law required
    'abandoned' federal land to be returned to tribes during the occupation of #Alcatraz Island by the #AmericanIndianMovement in the 1960s. In more recent years, the #LandbackMovement has given rise to increased calls for the return of territorial land to #IndigenousNations, and the return of land management based in #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge—expertise gathered from thousands of years of having deep relationships with specific environments. There’s a strong legal argument that land return is constitutionally required as damages due for hundreds of treaty violations. However, there’s also a lot of data showing Indigenous land management is more ecologically sound than government or industrially managed land. For instance, #ProjectDrawdown, a global leader in science-based #ClimateChange solutions, estimates that returning 1,000 million hectares of land to Indigenous tenureship by 2050 would sequester over 12 gigatons of carbon dioxide."

    Read more:
    time.com/7262838/us-public-lan

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/QnF32

    #LandBack #AIM #StolenLand #StolenLands #NationalParks #TEK #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesMonth #GiveItBack #Stewardship #LandIsLife #WaterIsLife #AlcatrazIsland #Resistance #USPol #TrumpSucks #RespectTheTreaties

  13. WH spox Harrison Fields said #Trump “shocked” the energy industry back to life & called on the Senate to “liberate our federal lands & waters to #oil, #gas, #coal, #geothermal, & #mineral leasing.”
    …With the opinion, the Trump admin is saying it has the power to abolish or shrink #NationalMonuments that have not yet been ratified by #Congress, said John Leshy, a University of California College of the #Law professor who served as #Interior’s solicitor general in the #Clinton admin.

    #PublicLands

  14. “Too often, federal decisions that affect our homelands are made without the engagement of the North Slope #Inupiat, the people these decisions will affect the most,” said Nagruk Harcharek, president of Voice of the #Arctic Inupiat, which represents Inupiat leadership organizations on the #NorthSlope & supports #oil & #gas projects.

    The group supports allowing oil & gas projects in the region….

    #Trump #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Climate #FossilFuels #PublicLands #conservation #wildlife #law

  15. “Too often, federal decisions that affect our homelands are made without the engagement of the North Slope #Inupiat, the people these decisions will affect the most,” said Nagruk Harcharek, president of Voice of the #Arctic Inupiat, which represents Inupiat leadership organizations on the #NorthSlope & supports #oil & #gas projects.

    The group supports allowing oil & gas projects in the region….

    #Trump #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Climate #FossilFuels #PublicLands #conservation #wildlife #law

  16. “Too often, federal decisions that affect our homelands are made without the engagement of the North Slope #Inupiat, the people these decisions will affect the most,” said Nagruk Harcharek, president of Voice of the #Arctic Inupiat, which represents Inupiat leadership organizations on the #NorthSlope & supports #oil & #gas projects.

    The group supports allowing oil & gas projects in the region….

    #Trump #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Climate #FossilFuels #PublicLands #conservation #wildlife #law