Wallace Stegner’s “Wilderness Letter” Is the Perfect Inspiration For Writing Your Own Comment to Protect Public Lands
Stegner’s now-iconic letter was also a public comment, urging officials to protect wild places from road building and development
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Forest Service Moves to Rescind the Roadless Rule in Its Entirety
Trump administration rescission would open 44 million acres of public lands and waters to road building and industrial logging
Proposed Sheep Creek Rare-Earth Mine Threatens Montana's Bitterroot River and Over 1,400 Farm Families
It's officially a modest exploration proposal, but locals see it as the opening move toward an industrial mine in the headwaters of one of Montana’s great trout rivers
Watch Federal Contractors Destroy Big Bend National Park
New images and video footage show the beginning of the end of the Big Bend National Park experience that we've known and cherished for 80+ years
The Bulldozers Have Arrived in Big Bend National Park
Contractors are grading roads and surveying the Rio Grande corridor even as lawmakers, outfitters, and residents plead for basic answers about a $1.7 billion border barrier project
A Quiet Rule Review Could Drain the Prairie Pothole Region, America’s “Duck Factory”
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule revision would drain thousands of tiny-but-vital wetlands across the northern Great Plains
Bureau of Land Management Approves First-Ever AI Data Center on Public Lands
Data center project in Nevada "is substantially the same" as a previously proposed solar farm, Trump administration claims
Okefenokee Becomes First National Wildlife Refuge to Gain UNESCO World Heritage Status
Georgia's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge protects the largest and most intact precipitation-based freshwater wetland ecosystem in the United States
Call to Action: Help Protect the Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape, One of America's Most Endangered Historic Places
Speak up to prevent destructive oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a World Heritage Site
Trump Administration Strips Away More Threatened and Endangered Species Protections, Putting Grizzly Bears in Its Crosshairs
Interior Department issued two new rules, weakening protections for threatened species and critical habitat