#publiclands — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #publiclands, aggregated by home.social.
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Color change, Isle Royale National Park today (Greenstone Ridge). For more information https://www.nps.gov/isro/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/isro/learn/nature/trees.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #IsleRoyale #miwx #lake #summer #michigan #water #greatlakes #fall #color #sun #leaves #trees
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Color change, Isle Royale National Park today (Greenstone Ridge). For more information https://www.nps.gov/isro/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/isro/learn/nature/trees.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #IsleRoyale #miwx #lake #summer #michigan #water #greatlakes #fall #color #sun #leaves #trees
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Color change, Isle Royale National Park today (Greenstone Ridge). For more information https://www.nps.gov/isro/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/isro/learn/nature/trees.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #IsleRoyale #miwx #lake #summer #michigan #water #greatlakes #fall #color #sun #leaves #trees
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Color change, Isle Royale National Park today (Greenstone Ridge). For more information https://www.nps.gov/isro/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/isro/learn/nature/trees.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #IsleRoyale #miwx #lake #summer #michigan #water #greatlakes #fall #color #sun #leaves #trees
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Color change, Isle Royale National Park today (Greenstone Ridge). For more information https://www.nps.gov/isro/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/isro/learn/nature/trees.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #IsleRoyale #miwx #lake #summer #michigan #water #greatlakes #fall #color #sun #leaves #trees
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Collegiate Peaks
Taylor Park, COThose are large travel trailers and RVs in distance in this wide-open, sanctioned dispersed camping area.
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Collegiate Peaks
Taylor Park, COThose are large travel trailers and RVs in distance in this wide-open, sanctioned dispersed camping area.
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West side of Ophir Pass
San Juan National Forest, CO -
West side of Ophir Pass
San Juan National Forest, CO -
West side of Ophir Pass
San Juan National Forest, CO -
West side of Ophir Pass
San Juan National Forest, CO -
West side of Ophir Pass
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Washington Sun: Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands. “The Bureau of Land Management has asked its state directors to identify public land ripe for data center development, according to two people familiar with the request, and those leaders have compiled lists for Interior Department leadership.”
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Washington Sun: Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands. “The Bureau of Land Management has asked its state directors to identify public land ripe for data center development, according to two people familiar with the request, and those leaders have compiled lists for Interior Department leadership.”
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Washington Sun: Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands. “The Bureau of Land Management has asked its state directors to identify public land ripe for data center development, according to two people familiar with the request, and those leaders have compiled lists for Interior Department leadership.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/13/washington-sun-inside-trumps-aggressive-push-to-build-data-centers-on-public-lands/ -
Washington Sun: Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands. “The Bureau of Land Management has asked its state directors to identify public land ripe for data center development, according to two people familiar with the request, and those leaders have compiled lists for Interior Department leadership.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/13/washington-sun-inside-trumps-aggressive-push-to-build-data-centers-on-public-lands/ -
Washington Sun: Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands. “The Bureau of Land Management has asked its state directors to identify public land ripe for data center development, according to two people familiar with the request, and those leaders have compiled lists for Interior Department leadership.”
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Redwood National and State Parks (current conditions along the coast). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/redw/planyourvisit/wildlife-viewing.htm and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #forest #trees Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #color #cawx #redwoods #ocean #summer #bird #birds #interpretation #whale #osprey #seal #waves
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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 -
Sunshine and smoke, Lyons Ranch area, Redwood National and State Parks. Learn more about the park at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and https://fire.airnow.gov/#10/41.1344/-123.5736 and #nps #nationalparks #ocean #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #coast #pacific #redwood #interpretation #cawx #california Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #summer #lookout #watershed #prairie #grassland #oak #woodland #fire #smoke #airquality
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Mount Rainier National Park today (View from Paradise). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/mora/index.htm and https://a.atmos.washington.edu/data/rainier_report.html and https://nwac.us/weatherdata/campmuir/now/ and #mountrainier #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #summer #washington Image credit National Park Service #wawx #trees #mountain #paradise #clouds #lenticular #weather #wind
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Fall transforming the beautiful Animas River near Durango, Colorado. Photo taken during a hike in 2013. Read the full story here:
#AnimasRiver #Colorado #Durango #FallColors #AutumnPhotography #MountainLandscape #NaturePhotography #WeminucheWilderness #PublicLands #hiking
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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 […] -
Denali Puppy Camera today (Denali National Park and Preserve). Image credit National Park Service and Alaska Geographic. Learn more at #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #alaska #publiclands #photography #denali #sleddog #sleddogs #travel #mushing #puppycam and https://www.nps.gov/dena/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/dena/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams-pups.htm
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AYFKM? Stop this madness!
Survey work begins for contested #Trump “#TriumphalArch” project in Washington
Workers began preliminary surveys & testing Monday of the proposed site of a Triumphal Arch sought by Trump, the latest step in plans for the contentious project in the nation’s capital.
#law #zoning #PublicLands #architecture #NationalParkService #NPS
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Colorado National Monument today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/colm/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/colm/learn/nature/geology.htm and https://www.nps.gov/subjects/swscience/pinyon-juniper-woodlands.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #nationalmonuments #colorado Image credit National Park Service #spring #geology #rock #sandstone #trees #pinyon #juniper
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Colorado National Monument today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/colm/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/colm/learn/nature/geology.htm and https://www.nps.gov/subjects/swscience/pinyon-juniper-woodlands.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #nationalmonuments #colorado Image credit National Park Service #spring #geology #rock #sandstone #trees #pinyon #juniper
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Colorado National Monument today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/colm/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/colm/learn/nature/geology.htm and https://www.nps.gov/subjects/swscience/pinyon-juniper-woodlands.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #nationalmonuments #colorado Image credit National Park Service #spring #geology #rock #sandstone #trees #pinyon #juniper
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Colorado National Monument today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/colm/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/colm/learn/nature/geology.htm and https://www.nps.gov/subjects/swscience/pinyon-juniper-woodlands.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #nationalmonuments #colorado Image credit National Park Service #spring #geology #rock #sandstone #trees #pinyon #juniper
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Colorado National Monument today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/colm/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/colm/learn/nature/geology.htm and https://www.nps.gov/subjects/swscience/pinyon-juniper-woodlands.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #nationalmonuments #colorado Image credit National Park Service #spring #geology #rock #sandstone #trees #pinyon #juniper
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Pinyon-juniper ecosystem in Grand Canyon National Park today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm and https://phenocam.nau.edu/webcam/sites/grca1pj/ and https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/winter-ndvi-phenology-peaks.htm and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #grandcanyon #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #azwx Image credit PhenoCam Network #winter #color #climate #weather #phenocam #forest #research #pinyon #juniper #ecosystem #phenology
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Pinyon-juniper ecosystem in Grand Canyon National Park today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm and https://phenocam.nau.edu/webcam/sites/grca1pj/ and https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/winter-ndvi-phenology-peaks.htm and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #grandcanyon #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #azwx Image credit PhenoCam Network #winter #color #climate #weather #phenocam #forest #research #pinyon #juniper #ecosystem #phenology
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Pinyon-juniper ecosystem in Grand Canyon National Park today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm and https://phenocam.nau.edu/webcam/sites/grca1pj/ and https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/winter-ndvi-phenology-peaks.htm and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #grandcanyon #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #azwx Image credit PhenoCam Network #winter #color #climate #weather #phenocam #forest #research #pinyon #juniper #ecosystem #phenology
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Pinyon-juniper ecosystem in Grand Canyon National Park today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm and https://phenocam.nau.edu/webcam/sites/grca1pj/ and https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/winter-ndvi-phenology-peaks.htm and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #grandcanyon #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #azwx Image credit PhenoCam Network #winter #color #climate #weather #phenocam #forest #research #pinyon #juniper #ecosystem #phenology
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Pinyon-juniper ecosystem in Grand Canyon National Park today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/grca/index.htm and https://phenocam.nau.edu/webcam/sites/grca1pj/ and https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/winter-ndvi-phenology-peaks.htm and #nps #nationalparks #interpretation #grandcanyon #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #azwx Image credit PhenoCam Network #winter #color #climate #weather #phenocam #forest #research #pinyon #juniper #ecosystem #phenology
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As President Donald Trump’s administration pushes a pro-ranching agenda, ProPublica and High Country News investigated how public lands grazing has evolved.
Here are the biggest takeaways from our reporting.
https://www.propublica.org/article/grazing-public-lands-investigation-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post#News #Government #Trump #Environment #Grazing #PublicLands #Law
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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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Redwood National and State Parks this weekend. In conjunction with the recent new moon, water heights associated with low tides exposed interesting rocks and allowed for different viewpoints of the coastal features. Learn more about the park at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #ocean #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #coast #pacific #redwood Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #waves #tide #geology #moon #nearshore #onshore
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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
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The opinion cites #SCOTUS Chief Justice #JohnRoberts in his 2021 response to a denial of certiorari in Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Assn v. Raimondo that he’d be interested in hearing a challenge to the #AntiquitiesAct.
Roberts wrote that the act’s use has been “transformed into a power without any discernible limit to set aside vast & amorphous expanses of terrain,” & the court may have an opportunity to consider the issue in the future.
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“We conclude that the #AntiquitiesAct permits the President to alter a prior declaration of a national monument, including by finding that the ‘landmarks,’ ‘structures,’ or ‘objects’ identified in the prior declaration either never were or no longer are deserving of the Act’s protections,” the #DOJ opinion issued May 27 concludes.
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The slip opinion that was made public Tuesday reverses & disavows a 1938 #DOJ opinion, which the federal government has relied upon to determine that monument designations are irrevocable.
https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1403101/dl
It specifically challenges #Biden’s 2025 creation of #Chuckwalla & #SáttítlaHighlands #NationalMonuments in #California. Both received broad support from area tribes, the #state, & California’s congressional delegation.
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#Trump has been largely hostile to large #NationalMonuments & has taken steps to consider allowing #drilling & #mining companies to access minerals within them.
In his first term, Trump shrank Utah’s Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, which were created by fmr #Democratic presidents Barack #Obama & Bill #Clinton. President Joe #Biden re-expanded those monuments. Both are now subject to litigation brought by Utah….
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#Trump #DOJ Outlines Legal Justification to Abolish Monuments
A US president’s power to create & undo #NationalMonuments under the 1906 #AntiquitiesAct is among the White House’s “most sweeping unilateral powers,” the DOJ said in a slip opinion.
The opinion forms the DOJ’s rationale for abolishing national monuments, many of which have been declared by presidents to protect large swaths of #PublicLand from development.
#law #PublicLands #conservation #drilling #mining
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/trump-doj-outlines-legal-justification-to-abolish-monuments-1 -
Others said opening up the reserve threatened to destroys #habitat for #caribou & thousands of #MigratoryBirds, & would put communities that depend on subsistence hunting at risk.
“This is very concerning to us,” said Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, fmr mayor of the mostly #Inupiaq city of #Nuiqsut.
Matt Jackson, #Alaska State snr manager at The #Wilderness Society…called the repeal of environmental protections an outrage.
#Trump #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #PublicLands #conservation #wildlife #law
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From border to border...
Isle Royale National Park (Mott Island) and Padre Island National Seashore ( Malaquite Beach) today.
For more information https://www.nps.gov/isro/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/pais/index.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #IsleRoyale #miwx #lake #spring #michigan #vessel #transportation #texas #seashore #nationalseashore #txwx #padreisland
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Padre Island National Seashore today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/pais/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #nationalseashore #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #padreisland Image credit National Park Service #texas #interpretation #color #waves
