BREAKING: USDA Moves to Bulldoze Last Unroaded Forests in America
Ninety percent of wildfires start within a half mile of a road. The proposal is to build more of them.
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Investigative journalism on the people, money, and politics deciding the fate of America’s 640 million acres of public lands. Home of the Congressional Public Lands Scorecard, the only tool grading all 535 members of Congress on their votes.
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What Fighting Back Actually Looks Like
In an old cottonwood tree in Arizona a small group of Americans are doing what lawsuits and letters couldn't.
The Fourth Wave of American Conservationism is Washing Ashore Now
Through the destruction a ripple of hope rings out.
The Best Public Lands Destinations You’ve Never Heard Of: Volume 5
A glass room on a twenty foot tower, forty-five dollars a night, and one of the best skies we’ve ever slept under on public land.
ANILCA Explained: The Most Consequential Public Lands Law in American History
It protected 104 million acres in a single signature. It also wrote in the escape hatches that are being used against those same acres right now.
The Rooms Where It Happens: The Committees That Decide the Fate of Your Public Lands
A few dozen names most Americans have never learned hold more power over America’s greatest landscapes than almost anyone in Washington. They’re counting on you not to learn them.
A First-of-Its-Kind Ruling Just Gave the Public Lands Transfer Movement a Way Around the Courts
A judge in Anchorage ruled that once the federal government hands public land to a state, no citizen can sue to undo it. Nothing in his reasoning stops at Alaska.
Writing the Public Out of Public Lands, and the Billion-Dollar Dinner Behind It
Five departments gutted their environmental review rules in one day, without taking comment on the rules that shrink your comment. More than a million Americans have objected since. Nothing has change
The Best Public Lands Destinations You've Never Heard of: Volume 4
Hidden corners of the America's public lands.
BREAKING: USDA Pushes Forward on a Radioactive Open Pit Mine Miles From Devils Tower
The Forest Service won’t publish a draft study and won’t let anybody object. Michael Boren signs the decision himself. You have until August 28.