Mapping the billionaire land grab of Big Bend & 250 million acres on National Parks & Forests

• Bulldozers plow through Big Bend National Park, sparking fury in Texas - MSN

• Republicans move to lift drilling and mining restrictions - AP

• Republicans allow AI data center on public land - MSN

• Michael Boren, billionaire Trump appointee had Forestry Service diverted planes to protect his mega ranch inside Idaho national park - Joe My God

• Interior Secretary Doug Burgum intervened to allow grazing on public lands - Public Domain

Trump copies Putin’s playbook of seizing public resources for himself and oligarchs. Putin exploits public resources and takes over assets to build private fortunes of the ruling elite. The Kremlin treats the state as its own property. As a result, property rights are largely symbolic, entirely dependent on the arbitrary will of the leader. They are not guaranteed by law or the courts, but by decisions taken by the leader himself. - OSW excerpts

Explore National Parks, Forests and public lands that billionaires can now use to drill for oil, mine, log for timber, graze cattle and put up AI data centers. Take a close up look of Big Bend National Park in Texas or any other park.

The US National Park Service manages 84.4 million acres that include the USA’s 63 national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties. - esri

One-eighth of the United States (247.3 million acres) is managed by the Bureau of Land Management . As part of the Department of the Interior, the agency oversees the 30 million acre National Landscape Conservation System, a collection of lands that includes 221 wilderness areas, 23 national monuments and 636 other protected areas. Bureau of Land Management Lands contain over 63,000 oil and gas wells and provide forage for over 18,000 grazing permit holders on 155 million acres of land. - esri

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