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The debate over provisions in the recently approved House tax legislation (Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill) has numerous environmentally destructive provisions which I will get to in a moment. However, one victory amid the unbridled promotion of resource development was the removal of an amendment that permitted the sale of 450,000 acres of public lands across…
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Oregon State University (OSU) published a series of essays, “Not All Flames Are the Same,” on wildfire in Oregon. While the essays are written about Oregon forests, most of the main ideas about wildfire represented in the publications are similar to the propaganda found across the West. Like many forestry schools, the authors promote the…
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The Gallatin Range, which runs south from Bozeman into Yellowstone National Park, is the largest unprotected roadless area in the northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). The range contains some of the best wildlife habitat in Montana. In particular, the Buffalo Horn and Porcupine drainages are critical lands for elk migration, grizzly bears, and numerous other…
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From Western Watersheds Project A new app to document the destruction—and fight back. Out West, it’s easy to miss the most destructive industry on public lands. Across vast tracts of public land, there are no drilling rigs, no clearcuts, no mines gouging the earth. Just cows. Quietly grazing—or more accurately, degrading—millions of acres of land…
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Public lands belong to all of us, and protecting them requires collaboration, strategy, and action. That’s why we want to share an important event happening May 28-30, 2025 The Healthy Public Lands Conference is a gathering of advocates, experts, and community members working to address the challenges facing our public lands. From overgrazing and habitat…
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Senators Curtis, Hickenlooper, Padilla, and Sheehy introduced Senate 1462 Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA) legislation. Similar legislation has already passed the House of Representatives. FOFA is a solution looking for a problem. Unfortunately, our forests do not have problems; even if they did, FOFA would not fix them. The idea that logging and prescribed burns…
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Top Line: In these dark times for nature, if not also the republic, it is all the more important not only to oppose but also to propose. I have either been part of or witnessed a multitude of gatherings of a few people uniting and proposing something that—at the time—was entirely out of reach, out of…
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From the good folks at WyoFile by Angus M. Thuermer Jr. As the Department of the Interior develops a plan to “restore American prosperity” by exploiting Western natural resources, a Wyoming attorney who has steeled rural communities against federal policies is atop the hierarchy that will marshal the effort. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum…
