#publiclands — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #publiclands, aggregated by home.social.
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Rio Grande and Bristol Head
Rio Grande National Forest, CO -
:boost_ok: Hey All! Remember my former posts on Roadless Rule? Yeah, well, after almost two years of fighting to keep it, it's now been recommended to rescind it and there are 16 days left to comment on it! We succeeded before and the US government has kept it this long, and WE CAN AGAIN!
(Warning: this will take some time as comments must be unique to count, BUT it will be a 3-for-1, so well worth it! Please keep reading for details!)
WHAT IT IS: it is a rule to prevent building of roads in wild spaces, protecting millions of acres from development. "They" want to rescind it to "make it easier to fight wildfires by developing road access". This is dumb because most wildfires in public lands start (r)*near roads* because of human involvement in the creation. Why do they *actually* want to get rid of this rule? Because then public lands can be developed for easy road access, which means mining, logging, and more can occur.
HOW TO WRITE A COMMENT: https://roadless.org/ is an *excellent* resource. Please see it. It will probably take 30 minutes to an hour of your time to research what you want to say, write and submit a comment. They also have a "comment workspace" option along top bar, which lets you input things important to you, and helps you write your comment. A good option if you lack spoons.
If you know what to say, here is the direct submission option: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FS-2025-0001-223869Over 92,000 comments have been made, let's push it over 100,000!
IN ADDITION! Your same comment can be easily edited to send to congress to ask them to cosponsor the Roadless Area Conservation Act. Beating the rescission on the record is the immediate fight — the lasting effect runs through Congress. The Act (H.R. 3930 / S. 2042) would write the rule into federal law, beyond any single administration's reach to repeal it by regulation again.
You can also send your comment to your senators and congressfolk so they know your stance.
Thus, one write up, one use of your time, can help us, help the world on *three* different fronts!
(r) this is an open access study about wildfire on public lands in the US, finding wilderness and roadless areas are the least likely to experience wildfire: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00450-2
#nature #conservation #science #ecology #biology #research #forest #forests #PublicLands #wildlife #hiking #explore #waterfall
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:boost_ok: Hey All! Remember my former posts on Roadless Rule? Yeah, well, after almost two years of fighting to keep it, it's now been recommended to rescind it and there are 16 days left to comment on it! We succeeded before and the US government has kept it this long, and WE CAN AGAIN!
(Warning: this will take some time as comments must be unique to count, BUT it will be a 3-for-1, so well worth it! Please keep reading for details!)
WHAT IT IS: it is a rule to prevent building of roads in wild spaces, protecting millions of acres from development. "They" want to rescind it to "make it easier to fight wildfires by developing road access". This is dumb because most wildfires in public lands start (r)*near roads* because of human involvement in the creation. Why do they *actually* want to get rid of this rule? Because then public lands can be developed for easy road access, which means mining, logging, and more can occur.
HOW TO WRITE A COMMENT: https://roadless.org/ is an *excellent* resource. Please see it. It will probably take 30 minutes to an hour of your time to research what you want to say, write and submit a comment. They also have a "comment workspace" option along top bar, which lets you input things important to you, and helps you write your comment. A good option if you lack spoons.
If you know what to say, here is the direct submission option: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FS-2025-0001-223869Over 92,000 comments have been made, let's push it over 100,000!
IN ADDITION! Your same comment can be easily edited to send to congress to ask them to cosponsor the Roadless Area Conservation Act. Beating the rescission on the record is the immediate fight — the lasting effect runs through Congress. The Act (H.R. 3930 / S. 2042) would write the rule into federal law, beyond any single administration's reach to repeal it by regulation again.
You can also send your comment to your senators and congressfolk so they know your stance.
Thus, one write up, one use of your time, can help us, help the world on *three* different fronts!
(r) this is an open access study about wildfire on public lands in the US, finding wilderness and roadless areas are the least likely to experience wildfire: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00450-2
#nature #conservation #science #ecology #biology #research #forest #forests #PublicLands #wildlife #hiking #explore #waterfall
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:boost_ok: Hey All! Remember my former posts on Roadless Rule? Yeah, well, after almost two years of fighting to keep it, it's now been recommended to rescind it and there are 16 days left to comment on it! We succeeded before and the US government has kept it this long, and WE CAN AGAIN!
(Warning: this will take some time as comments must be unique to count, BUT it will be a 3-for-1, so well worth it! Please keep reading for details!)
WHAT IT IS: it is a rule to prevent building of roads in wild spaces, protecting millions of acres from development. "They" want to rescind it to "make it easier to fight wildfires by developing road access". This is dumb because most wildfires in public lands start (r)*near roads* because of human involvement in the creation. Why do they *actually* want to get rid of this rule? Because then public lands can be developed for easy road access, which means mining, logging, and more can occur.
HOW TO WRITE A COMMENT: https://roadless.org/ is an *excellent* resource. Please see it. It will probably take 30 minutes to an hour of your time to research what you want to say, write and submit a comment. They also have a "comment workspace" option along top bar, which lets you input things important to you, and helps you write your comment. A good option if you lack spoons.
If you know what to say, here is the direct submission option: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FS-2025-0001-223869Over 92,000 comments have been made, let's push it over 100,000!
IN ADDITION! Your same comment can be easily edited to send to congress to ask them to cosponsor the Roadless Area Conservation Act. Beating the rescission on the record is the immediate fight — the lasting effect runs through Congress. The Act (H.R. 3930 / S. 2042) would write the rule into federal law, beyond any single administration's reach to repeal it by regulation again.
You can also send your comment to your senators and congressfolk so they know your stance.
Thus, one write up, one use of your time, can help us, help the world on *three* different fronts!
(r) this is an open access study about wildfire on public lands in the US, finding wilderness and roadless areas are the least likely to experience wildfire: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00450-2
#nature #conservation #science #ecology #biology #research #forest #forests #PublicLands #wildlife #hiking #explore #waterfall
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:boost_ok: Hey All! Remember my former posts on Roadless Rule? Yeah, well, after almost two years of fighting to keep it, it's now been recommended to rescind it and there are 16 days left to comment on it! We succeeded before and the US government has kept it this long, and WE CAN AGAIN!
(Warning: this will take some time as comments must be unique to count, BUT it will be a 3-for-1, so well worth it! Please keep reading for details!)
WHAT IT IS: it is a rule to prevent building of roads in wild spaces, protecting millions of acres from development. "They" want to rescind it to "make it easier to fight wildfires by developing road access". This is dumb because most wildfires in public lands start (r)*near roads* because of human involvement in the creation. Why do they *actually* want to get rid of this rule? Because then public lands can be developed for easy road access, which means mining, logging, and more can occur.
HOW TO WRITE A COMMENT: https://roadless.org/ is an *excellent* resource. Please see it. It will probably take 30 minutes to an hour of your time to research what you want to say, write and submit a comment. They also have a "comment workspace" option along top bar, which lets you input things important to you, and helps you write your comment. A good option if you lack spoons.
If you know what to say, here is the direct submission option: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FS-2025-0001-223869Over 92,000 comments have been made, let's push it over 100,000!
IN ADDITION! Your same comment can be easily edited to send to congress to ask them to cosponsor the Roadless Area Conservation Act. Beating the rescission on the record is the immediate fight — the lasting effect runs through Congress. The Act (H.R. 3930 / S. 2042) would write the rule into federal law, beyond any single administration's reach to repeal it by regulation again.
You can also send your comment to your senators and congressfolk so they know your stance.
Thus, one write up, one use of your time, can help us, help the world on *three* different fronts!
(r) this is an open access study about wildfire on public lands in the US, finding wilderness and roadless areas are the least likely to experience wildfire: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00450-2
#nature #conservation #science #ecology #biology #research #forest #forests #PublicLands #wildlife #hiking #explore #waterfall
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Green Mountain
Gunnison National Forest, COI don't think they were being ironic. There are volumes of green clay on those barren slopes. Many abandoned mines down through the valley.
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Green Mountain
Gunnison National Forest, COI don't think they were being ironic. There are volumes of green clay on those barren slopes. Many abandoned mines down through the valley.
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Green Mountain
Gunnison National Forest, COI don't think they were being ironic. There are volumes of green clay on those barren slopes. Many abandoned mines down through the valley.
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Green Mountain
Gunnison National Forest, COI don't think they were being ironic. There are volumes of green clay on those barren slopes. Many abandoned mines down through the valley.
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Green Mountain
Gunnison National Forest, COI don't think they were being ironic. There are volumes of green clay on those barren slopes. Many abandoned mines down through the valley.
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Haleakala National Park yesterday afternoon. For more information https://www.nps.gov/hale/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/hale/planyourvisit/summit-district.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #hawaii #clouds #summer #sacred #color #crater #island #trail
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Haleakala National Park yesterday afternoon. For more information https://www.nps.gov/hale/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/hale/planyourvisit/summit-district.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #hawaii #clouds #summer #sacred #color #crater #island #trail
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Haleakala National Park yesterday afternoon. For more information https://www.nps.gov/hale/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/hale/planyourvisit/summit-district.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #hawaii #clouds #summer #sacred #color #crater #island #trail
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Haleakala National Park yesterday afternoon. For more information https://www.nps.gov/hale/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/hale/planyourvisit/summit-district.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #hawaii #clouds #summer #sacred #color #crater #island #trail
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Haleakala National Park yesterday afternoon. For more information https://www.nps.gov/hale/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/hale/planyourvisit/summit-district.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #hawaii #clouds #summer #sacred #color #crater #island #trail
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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. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/24/twenty-five-dollars-and-a-signature/
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#Trump admin moves ahead to end #roadless rule on #NationalForests
Environmentalists [warn] …lifting protections will have detrimental effects for old growth #forests, #wildlife & #water supplies.
“Americans across the political spectrum have made it crystal clear that they don’t want political appointees removing protections from #PublicLands,” said Chris Krupp, an attorney with the group WildEarth Guardians.
#law #SaveRoadless #conservation #ClimateChange
https://apnews.com/article/roadless-rule-forests-trump-e80a41e0231aa070313a3484261368f3?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension -
Rio Grande and Ute Mountain
Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, NMSomething different this time for #SaturdayScenery This is a "still" from a full 360º aerial panorama that can be viewed here: https://kuula.co/post/5Jvxm
You have to view the pano to actually see Ute Mountain and look along the gorge. If I get positive feedback I will do this again on Saturdays. If not... oh, well.
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Beyond the Map: Surveying Then and Now | Ordnance Survey [UK]
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https://youtu.be/RkOkapW66OU?si=1jLLwWqT1MATSQd9 <-- shared video
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H/T @Ordnance Survey
“Britain's map has changed a lot over the years - and so has the way it's made.
Meet Brian and Will, OS Surveyors from different generations, sharing how surveying has evolved and what it means to help map Great Britain. Here's part one of their story.
From long days in the field with paper maps and handwritten notes to modern GPS and digital technology, surveying has come a long way. But one thing hasn't changed: the people behind the map…”
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“Will's grandfather Brian helped map Britain. Today, Will does the same job with very different technology.
Together, they reflect on their careers as Ordnance Survey surveyors, sharing stories from different eras of surveying.
From paper field books to GPS and digital mapping, discover how surveying has evolved, how maps are made, and the technology behind the data millions rely on every day.
Whether you're interested in mapping, surveying, geography, cartography, or the history of Ordnance Survey, this is a fascinating insight into the people and processes that help put Britain on the map…”
#UK #OS #survey #history #GIS #spatial #mapping #Britian #surveyors #GreatBritian #family #technology #oldschool #cartography #geography #careers #publicservice #publicgood #publiclands #civilservice #UK
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Katmai National Park and Preserve today (Katmai Bear Cams). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/katm/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/katm/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm and https://explore.org/livecams/brown-bear-multiview?livecam=56 and #katmai #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #summer #alaska Image credit National Park Service and Explore .org #river #mountain #fish #explore #bear #fishing #salmon #preserve
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Dyno, my faithful companion on her first mountain adventure in the Weminuche Wilderness. Read the full story (and see more pictures) here:
#WeminucheWilderness #Colorado #MountainHiking #AdventureDog #TrailDog #NaturePhotography #Backpacking #PublicLands #hiking
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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
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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
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The #BLM is proposing major changes to grazing regulations that govern millions of acres of public lands across the West. Now is the time to speak up for wildlife, water, recreation, and public involvement. Comments close July 13.
#PublicLands #Bison #WildHorses
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This Land: A Guide to Western National Forests by Robert Mohlenbrock
Lands of the Western National Forests by Robert Mullenbach is a directory-style reference book covering the national forests west of the Rockies. It's part of a trilogy — Eastern, Central, and Western — and yes, the whole series is out of print and showing its age. No new photography, no updated trail counts. And yet — if you care about American public lands, this is a must-have reference. National Forests Are the Underrated Treasure National parks get all the credit. They're the […] -
#USNaziParty and Scumbag #Billionaires Want to Steal and Ruin Protected #Wilderness Areas, #PublicLands
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lEvDnuglCKw&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D
#Minnesota #capitalism #tech #greed #mining #AutomatedVehicles
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New Field Note is live: I got accepted as an onX Offroad Trail Guide, and I have 30 days to map + submit a trail to stay in.
I wrote about the good parts, the parts worth squinting at, and the personal rules I’m using so “more access” doesn’t turn into “more damage.”
https://adventureadjacent.com/2026/02/21/i-got-accepted-as-an-onx-offroad-trail-guide/
#OffRoad #OnXOffroad #TrailGuides #TrailStewardship #PublicLands #Pennsylvania #FJCruiser
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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:
https://time.com/7262838/us-public-lands-return-indigenous-people/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/QnF32#LandBack #AIM #StolenLand #StolenLands #NationalParks #TEK #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesMonth #GiveItBack #Stewardship #LandIsLife #WaterIsLife #AlcatrazIsland #Resistance #USPol #TrumpSucks #RespectTheTreaties
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Filmmakers Sue Burning Man for Not Allowing Them to Film Festival’s Clean Up https://petapixel.com/2025/09/22/filmmakers-sue-burning-man-for-not-allowing-them-to-film-festivals-clean-up/ #documentaryfilmmaker #publiclands #burningman #festival #lawsuit #nevada #News #Law
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Katmai National Park and Preserve, Brooks Falls. Image credit National Park Service and Explore Annenberg LLC. Learn more at #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #alaska #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #katmai #bear #bears #waterfall #bearcam and https://www.nps.gov/katm/index.htm and https://www.explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brown-bear-salmon-cam-brooks-falls and https://www.nps.gov/katm/learn/photosmultimedia/bearcam-frequently-asked-questions.htm
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Finding encouragement in troubling times: "Sandhill cranes on their way north, their voices reaching me where I stand. For a moment, I feel blessed."
https://mountainjournal.org/in-nature-and-friendship-column-marsh-rejecting-despair-as-greater-yellowstone-wildlife-and-public-lands-under-threat#resilience #SandhillCranes #birds #wildlife #nature #PublicLands #Yellowstone #PublicEmployees #probationary #doge #ForestService #BureauOfLandManagement
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The cranes and geese have been heading north, but Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is a relaxing day trip throughout the year. Whereas the migratory birds visit yearly, there are ample opportunities to photography wildlife.
#OptOutside #roadtrip #travel #daytrip #nature #wildlife #whataview #scenic #NewMexico #landscape #naturelovers #ig_bliss #ig_serenity #landscapephotography #publiclands