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Comment Now to Save Wilderness Areas

The Trump administration wants to prevent future wilderness areas from being made and change the management of current ones. Now is your only chance to…

Jun 16 • Jim Pattiz and More Than Just Parks

Comment Today to Save Ohio’s Only National Forest from Fracking

The Wayne grew back from a century of clear-cuts and furnace fires. Now Doug Burgum’s BLM wants to lease it to drillers, and a federal judge already…

Jun 15 • More Than Just Parks and Will Pattiz

BREAKING: Federal Judge Orders Trump-Altered National Park Sites Restored

The administration spent a year stripping exhibits about slavery, climate, and stolen Native land out of our national parks. On Friday a judge called it…

Jun 14 • Will Pattiz and More Than Just Parks

A Major Win at Grand Staircase

A coalition of readers, tribal nations, scientists, and Utahns just beat one of the most powerful public lands villains in Washington. Anyone who says…

Jun 13 • Will Pattiz and More Than Just Parks

Trump Administration Moves to Close the Door on Future Wilderness

By opening qualifying lands to development, officials seek to permanently remove them from Wilderness consideration.

Jun 12 • Jim Pattiz and More Than Just Parks

BREAKING: Mike Lee Moves to Kill the Roadless Rule Permanently

A repeal no court can review and no future president can reverse. Slipped into a wildfire bill and rushed through committee in the dark.

Jun 10 • Jim Pattiz and More Than Just Parks

Start a Public Lands Friends Group in Your Neighborhood

Coffee. Then more coffee. Then doing something together when it matters.

Jun 10 • Will Pattiz and More Than Just Parks

DHS Contractor Bulldozes Thousand Year Old Archeological Site

A border wall contractor ignored warnings and bulldozed a thousand-year-old O'odham site in the Arizona desert.

Jun 9 • Jim Pattiz and More Than Just Parks

The 8 Million Acres We Own and Can't Reach

How a 19th-century railroad scheme turned the West into a checkerboard, and why it can still lock us out of land we all own.

Jun 6 • Will Pattiz and More Than Just Parks

We Are All Ripples of Hope in the Battle for Our Public Lands

Why the work never looks like it’s working, and the irrefutable majority we become when we refuse to quit.

Jun 5 • Will Pattiz and More Than Just Parks

Tomorrow Alaska Burns $190 Million Of Taxpayer Money To Drag Oil Companies Into The Arctic Refuge

AIDEA, the State of Alaska’s economic development corporation, will bid $190 million of state taxpayer money in tomorrow’s federal auction. The oil…

Jun 4 • Will Pattiz and More Than Just Parks

In Defense of the Great Sagebrush Sea

The largest intact ecosystem in the lower 48 is being sold off because Americans were trained to see it as wasteland.

Jun 3 • Will Pattiz and More Than Just Parks

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