#publiclands — Public Fediverse posts

Land Bureau Opens Coal Leases to Critical Mineral Development

Coal producers seeking to develop critical minerals under existing permits can potentially skip additional environmental review, the Bureau…
#Environment #coal #environmentalimpactassessment #environmentalpermitting #leasing #mining #PublicLands
https://www.europesays.com/3245659/

Plans to open millions of acres in Utah to mining and oil leasing could put these natural landscapes at risk. #publiclands

https://www.hcn.org/articles/whats-destroying-utahs-monuments/

Plans to open millions of acres in Utah to mining and oil leasing could put these natural landscapes at risk. #publiclands

https://www.hcn.org/articles/whats-destroying-utahs-monuments/

Plans to open millions of acres in Utah to mining and oil leasing could put these natural landscapes at risk. #publiclands

https://www.hcn.org/articles/whats-destroying-utahs-monuments/

Plans to open millions of acres in Utah to mining and oil leasing could put these natural landscapes at risk. #publiclands

https://www.hcn.org/articles/whats-destroying-utahs-monuments/

Two views from Glacier National Park (Lake McDonald). For more information https://www.nps.gov/glac/index.htm and #glacier #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #montana Image credit National Park Service / Glacier National Park Conservancy #mtwx #summer #lake #trees #mountains #boat #travel #water #season #fall #clouds

Two views from Glacier National Park (Lake McDonald). For more information https://www.nps.gov/glac/index.htm and #glacier #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #montana Image credit National Park Service / Glacier National Park Conservancy #mtwx #summer #lake #trees #mountains #boat #travel #water #season #fall #clouds

Two views from Glacier National Park (Lake McDonald). For more information https://www.nps.gov/glac/index.htm and #glacier #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #montana Image credit National Park Service / Glacier National Park Conservancy #mtwx #summer #lake #trees #mountains #boat #travel #water #season #fall #clouds

Two views from Glacier National Park (Lake McDonald). For more information https://www.nps.gov/glac/index.htm and #glacier #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #montana Image credit National Park Service / Glacier National Park Conservancy #mtwx #summer #lake #trees #mountains #boat #travel #water #season #fall #clouds

Two views from Glacier National Park (Lake McDonald). For more information https://www.nps.gov/glac/index.htm and #glacier #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #montana Image credit National Park Service / Glacier National Park Conservancy #mtwx #summer #lake #trees #mountains #boat #travel #water #season #fall #clouds

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

https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/a-first-of-its-kind-ruling-just-gave

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

https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/a-first-of-its-kind-ruling-just-gave

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

https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/a-first-of-its-kind-ruling-just-gave

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

https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/a-first-of-its-kind-ruling-just-gave

Virtual teach-in on the Bear Lodge Rare Earth Project, a proposed 100+ acre open-pit mine next to Mato Tipila (Bear Lodge) for rare Earth mineral mining located approximately 12 miles north of Sundance, WY, including 1,060 acres of National Forest Service lands and 640 acres of private lands
#Mining #PublicLands #USFS
https://ndncollective.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BVGll1mRRd-rTuRLaKZPLw#/registration

At least some of the aircraft were DIVERTED from efforts to contain #wildfires elsewhere in the state‼️‼️, according to 2 agency officials & the Post analysis of the flight paths.

Communications reviewed by The Washington Post sent during the response to the blaze corroborate that Boren personally directed #USFS staff to address the Cabin Creek Fire.

#law #AbuseOfPower #billionaires #Trump #RichWhiteMalePrivilege #NationalForest #PublicLands #ClimateChange

In those calls, according to the #USFS official with knowledge of the situation, Boren pushed for more aircraft to fight the fire even though “it was easily accessible by ground,” the official said.

He “was on the phone calling people that day asking why there weren’t more resources on the fire & when there was going to be more,” the official said.

#law #AbuseOfPower #billionaires #Trump #RichWhiteMalePrivilege #NationalForest #PublicLands #wildfires #ClimateChange

Two other agency officials said he called those offices, including at least once in the middle of the night. [must be nice to have government resources at your personal disposal for your private property]

Six current & former #USFS officials said the response was far greater than what is typical for a fire of that scale that did not pose a significant threat to life or property.

#law #AbuseOfPower #billionaires #Trump #NationalForest #PublicLands #wildfires #ClimateChange

Boren, a #tech #billionaire & #Trump appointee, oversees about 200 million acres of #NationalForest & #PublicLands. He also owns thousands of acres in #Idaho, including the 480-acre Hell Roaring Ranch situated within the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. And before his current role, Boren had clashed with the #USFS numerous times over the years.

#law #AbuseOfPower #billionaires #ClimateChange

Of course he did.

Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment [ #USDA #NRE ] Michael Boren, who oversees the US Forest Service [ #USFS ], asked agency staff last month to escalate the amount of aircraft at a small 7-acre #wildfire that had started near his mega-ranch in #Idaho’s Sawtooth National Forest, acc/to 2 Forest Service ofcls familiar with the matter.


#law #AbuseOfPower #billionaires #Trump #NationalForest #PublicLands #ClimateChange
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/08/14/top-trump-official-asked-more-resources-fight-small-fire-near-his-idaho-ranch/

Alaska Groups Appeal Ruling Approving Public Lands Transfer

A court ruling greenlighting the transfer of nearly 1.4 million acres of federal land to the state of…
#Environment #infrastructurefunding #mining #notice #Pipelines #preliminaryinjunctions #PublicLands #sovereignimmunity
https://www.europesays.com/3189790/

Red and evergreen huckleberry, Redwood National and State Parks. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and https://www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/plants/shrub/vacova/all.html and https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/DocumentLibrary/plantguide/pdf/cs_vapa.pdf and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #flowers #berries #phenology #plants Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #color #cawx #redwoods #ocean #summer #huckleberry

Redwood National and State Parks - Current conditions along the coast. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black_Oystercatcher/overview and https://www.nps.gov/places/black-oystercatcher.htm and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #sun #bird #birds #spring Image credit (1) National Park Service / Redwood Parks Conservancy and (2) Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #california #redwood #colors #landscapephotography #travel #coast #ocean #research #beach #geology #tides #cawx #sand #waves #wind #oystercatcher

Forest scene, Deschutes National Forest, south of Bend, Oregon. Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs. Learn more at https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/deschutes and https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/55382 and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112713002119 and #pine #forest #publiclands #photography #rxburn #humancausedfire #prescribedfire #usfs #forestservice #travel #oregon #wildfire #history #tree #ponderosapine #mixedconifer #research #landscape #landscapephotography

Comment today to Protect the Mojave Desert from Industrial Mining!

#PublicLands #ProtectOurParks #MojaveDesert #CastleMountain #Mining
https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/national?actionid=ar0619965&id=70131000001iOuIAAU

Valles Caldera National Preserve today with a pair of rangers waiting for the arrival of a group. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/vall/index.htm and https://www.fs.usda.gov/rm/pubs_rm/rm_gtr292/rm_gtr292_003_027.pdf and #nps #nationalparks #photography #landscapephotography #publiclands #interpretation Image credit National Park Service #newmexico #volcano #VallesCaldera #ranger #camera #trees #valley #travel #tour #talk #pine #ponderosapine

#JardineMT US Forest Service project comment period extended until June 1, 2026. Project website https://www.fs.usda.gov/r01/custergallatin/projects/68985

#MTPol #Montana #YellowstoneNationalPark #PublicLands

@officialjtron The work of Chronolog is really interesting for sure. Photo monitoring sites can be found around the world - Denmark, Australia, Africa, etc. Closer to home, one can see Chronolog images from California MPAs (Bodega Head) or the King Range National Conservation Area. These two images, one from California, one from Arizona, show a bit of the site diversity. Image credit Chronolog. Learn more at https://www.chronolog.io/ and #photography #landscapephotography #publiclands #nps #nationalparks #mpa #ocean #desert #coast #saguaro #interpretation #citizenscience #chronolog #research #environment #stewardship

Scenes of snow from New Mexico (Valles Caldera National Preserve yesterday) to Montana (Yellowstone National Park North Entrance today). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/vall/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/yell/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #photography #landscapephotography #publiclands #interpretation Image credit National Park Service #newmexico #volcano #VallesCaldera #fieldofview #camera #trees #valley #mountains #montana #yellowstone #snow #fall #icicle #travel

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

Historical Fire Perimeters – Mapping – CalFire
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https://www.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/fire-resource-assessment-program/fire-perimeters <--shared resource
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https://www.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/fire-resource-assessment-program/fire-perimeters <-- current CalFire incidents
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https://34c031f8-c9fd-4018-8c5a-4159cdff6b0d-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/calfire-website/what-we-do/fire-resource-assessment-program---frap/gis-data/2025/fire241gdb.ash'?rev=51177a999fe84e83a7c03b7d5a66b93b <-- download all data, GDB
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #fire #CalFire #FRAP #resourcesassessmentprogram #fireperimeter #publiclands #privatelands #California #fedscience #fedservice #opendata #publicgood #database #risk #hazard #fireperimeter #asis #database #USFS #BLM #NPS #USFWS

Camera update: Valles Caldera National Preserve today with a change to the field of view. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/vall/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #photography #landscapephotography #publiclands #interpretation Image credit National Park Service #newmexico #volcano #VallesCaldera #fieldofview #camera #trees #valley

Smokey Bear with a hand-held drip torch at the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base Museum in Oregon. Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs. Learn more at https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/34a1ea14-1890-4879-946c-84b7e25758ac/ and https://smokeybear.com/en/smokeys-history?decade=1940 and https://southernfireexchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2013-3.pdf and #smokeybear #forest #publiclands #photography #rxburn #prescribedfire #usfs #forestservice #smokey #smokejumper #museum #oregon #wildfire #history

Red Huckleberry, Lady Bird Johnson Grove, Redwood National and State Parks. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/places/lady-bird-johnson-nature-trail-welcome.htm and https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=8201 and https://www.calflora.org/app/ipl?vrid=svy1453&bloom=t and https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=vapa and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #flowers #berries #phenology Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #color #cawx #redwoods #ocean #summer #huckleberry

Next, the hike:
https://valhikes.blogspot.com/2025/05/black-rock-mountain-lookout.html
which visited the old Guard Station location and then climbed to the fire lookout location. Only one is still standing and none were entered.

#California #TrinityCounty #TehamaCounty #ShastaTrinityNationalForest #YollaBollyMiddleEelWilderness

#hiking #dayhike #ShastaTrinityNF #TrinityNF #YollaBolly #fireLookout #nature #wilderness #publicLands #TrinityNationalForest #landscape #hike #travel #outside #peakbagger #peakbagging

Fire Danger Rating Sign and Smokey Bear in Trinidad, California, yesterday. Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs. Learn more at https://smokeybear.com/en/smokeys-history?decade=1940 and https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/firedangerrating#:~:text=The%20National%20Fire%20Danger%20Rating,and%20simplify%20fuel%20model%20inputs. and https://www.fire.ca.gov/ and #smokeybear #forest #publiclands #photography #newtopographics #usfs #forestservice #smokey #calfire #nfdrs #sign #california

New Dungeness Light Station today. For those interested in visiting, general location reference points include Washington (USA), British Columbia (Canada), Salish Sea, Puget Sound, and Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge. Image credit NDLSA. Learn more at #USFWS #wildliferefuge #lighthouse #landscapephotography #photography #interpretation #publiclands and https://newdungenesslighthouse.com and https://www.fws.gov/refuge/dungeness #washington #history #nationalhistoricsite

“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

Evergreen huckleberry and Douglas’ iris from Trinidad Head today. The California Coastal National Monument is the backdrop for these views. For more information https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/california/california-coastal and https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=botany_jps and #publiclands #photography #phenology #nationalmonuments #ocean #flowers #huckleberry #iris #coast #california Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs

Huckleberry, Redwood National and State Parks (Image from yesterday in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park). Learn more at https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=415 and https://www.nps.gov/redw/learn/nature/about-the-trees.htm and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #flowers #phenology #plants #huckleberry Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs

One more from my morning poetry reading: "Dear America," by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.

https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2024/07/03/dear-america-4/

"a small proof of what
your finest citizens do—
find ways to support
other citizens,
no matter their color,
no matter their stripes."

#poetry #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #America #RosemerryWahtolaTrommer #PublicLands #nature #neighbors

New Dungeness Light Station today. For those interested in visiting, general location reference points include Washington (USA), British Columbia (Canada), Salish Sea, Puget Sound, and Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge. Image credit NDLSA. Learn more at #USFWS #wildliferefuge #lighthouse #landscapephotography #photography #interpretation #publiclands and https://newdungenesslighthouse.com and https://www.fws.gov/refuge/dungeness