What the results of the election mean for public lands

The bill would also sideline Tribes, lock in offshore drilling, and let an administration bankroll its favorite companies The Senate’s bipartisan permitting bill would give President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum two years to approve data centers, nuclear reactors, and nuclear waste storage on public lands, then make those approvals nearly impossible for a […]

On Tuesday, Representative Pete Stauber of Minnesota introduced a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act that would overturn a public land order that protects the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from the impacts of mining. Public Land Order 7917, issued in 2023 by then-Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, withdrew the headwaters of the Boundary Waters area from […]

Kate hosts a live episode in Salt Lake City on CWP’s Keep Parks Public tour! Guests: Erika Pollard, National Parks Conservation Association; Davina Smith, Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition and Grand Staircase Escalante Partners; Scott Braden, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance; Doug Tolman, Save Our Canyons. Resources Keep Parks Public: Tell us why you love public lands […]

Aaron hosts a live episode in Denver, kicking off CWP’s Keep Parks Public tour. Scott Fitzwilliams, former supervisor of the White River National Forest in Colorado, Kelly Nordini, CEO of Conservation Colorado, and Kara Matsumoto, public lands director at the Conservation Lands Foundation, join us to discuss threats to Colorado’s public lands posed by the […]

The Department of Justice responded to the Utah lawsuit seeking control of 18.5 million acres of federal lands, stating that the lawsuit “plainly lacks merit” and is not worthy of being heard by the Supreme Court. A DOJ legal brief filed with the Supreme Court on Thursday argued that the U.S. Constitution clearly allows the federal government to control the […]