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Tyler Hassen admitted that DOGE didn't actually save money.
The national debt passed $40 trillion on August 18.
#DOGE #publiclands #nationalparks #elonmusk #debt
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NEW ANALYSIS: 99 percent of the 134,312 public comments on the Forest Service's plan to open national forest roads and trails to motor vehicles by default oppose it.
Americans know there are places motorized vehicles belong and places they don't.
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Check out our analysis here: westernpriorities.org/resour…
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STATEMENT on Pitkin County's vote to approve special use permit for operations of Maroon Bells Scenic Area: westernpriorities.org/2026/0…
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So basically Trump watched The Odyssey and decided to make his very own Trojan Horse 💀
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The Interior department disapproved 133 National Park Service partner agreements on 8/7, blocking $25.9 million for fire recovery, habitat restoration, archives, and conservation crews at 61 locations. Our new interactive map shows every one:
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BLM is weighing data center proposals or right-of-way permits on public lands in Arizona, Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming, according to data identified by the Center for Western Priorities.
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The man in charge of our public lands appears to know nothing about national monuments.
Is he really this ignorant, or is he lying on purpose?
Read the blog and let us know.
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Doug Burgum fails national monument fact check.
Do you think he's lying on purpose, or he has no idea what's true?
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I don’t need to engage in insults because I show up with receipts.
THIS ⬇️ is what Donald Trump’s own budget request says in black and white about transferring lands in Yosemite National Park.
#HandsOffOurPublicLands
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🚨 PUBLIC ASSISTANCE REQUESTED
The NPS is asking for information about more than 20 individuals who may be missing or unaccounted for following the Aug. 29 flash flood in Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area.
If you know of hikers/backpackers who were in the Bright Angel Creek corridor Aug. 29—or had a campground reservation there—please contact NPS Investigative Services Branch:
📞 888-653-0009
📧 nps_isb@nps.gov
This includes those who may have been on the North Kaibab Trail between the trailhead and Phantom Ranch, at Bright Angel Campground, or in “the Box” north of Phantom Ranch.
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ALT Muddy water of bright angel creek with muddy debris on the edge of the creek with a trail sign and the phantom ranch ranger station in the background
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National parks are supposed to be a sacred, irrevocable contract between Americans and our government.
That promise was shattered at Big Bend--and now they’re coming for Yosemite.
Not even our national parks are safe from the woodchipper of private equity and corporate greed.
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The Interior Department will soon publish a ‘categorical exclusion’ that will rubber stamp oil and gas development in Alaska’s remote National Petroleum Reserve. hcn.org/articles/arctic-dril…
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I’ve wanted to visit the Boundary Waters for most of my life. After four days of paddling a canoe I barely scratched the surface. We paddled, we camped, I even caught a Northern Pike.
I can’t imagine copper sulfide pollution in this watershed and ruining one of the great public land wildernesses in North America. We're gonna fight this.
ALT Senator Martin Heinrich and Julie Heinrich paddle on the Boundary Waters.
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NEW: Analysis finds over 99% of commenters oppose BLM's Oil and Gas Rule rollback
Our statement: westernpriorities.org/2026/0…
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The U.S. Forest Service’s own Draft Environmental Impact Statement on repealing the 2001 Roadless Rule documents extensive harm from the administration’s preferred plan, including increased risk of wildfire starts.
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U.S. Forest Service moves forward with Roadless Rule repeal, ignoring public sentiment
Our statement: westernpriorities.org/2026/0…
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CBP is pausing all construction activity in Big Bend National Park while I visit and conduct a personal, on-the-ground evaluation.
CBP is firmly committed to protecting America, and that includes our national treasures like Big Bend National Park (BBNP). We know the current and predictable national security threats and they are real. Now over the next couple of days, I will join a small team to evaluate the terrain and listen to local leadership, community members and stakeholders to ensure that we secure our borders while simultaneously protecting BBNP for generations to come.
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