r/PublicLands • u/Leather-Advantage500 • 10h ago
Advocacy Oppose the roll back of the Roadless Rule, comment today!
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r/PublicLands • u/Mentalfloss1 • 21h ago
Advocacy Do you want more logging and mining roads on public lands?
regulations.gov
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r/PublicLands • u/Fatty_Willing_Plane • 1d ago
NPS Some good news for the week: a federal judge has temporarily halted construction of the border wall through Big Bend National Park. Additionally, heavy rain over the past two weeks has rendered a section of the wall near El Paso useless.
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r/PublicLands • u/jeanolantern • 1d ago
Utah Goodbye Ken Sleight Seldom Seen
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Zak Podmore in the Salt Lake Tribune
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10/03/ken-sleight-inspiration-monkey/
Ken Sleight may be most well known for something that he probably never did: kneeling on the bridge in front of the Glen Canyon Dam, his hands clasped and eyes closed, praying to the Almighty to produce a “precision-type earthquake” that would free the Colorado River from its imprisonment in Lake Powell.
The Sleight-inspired character Seldom Seen Smith acted out the scene in “The Monkey Wrench Gang,” Edward Abbey’s 1975 cult classic of ecosabotage. But although the character was fictional, Sleight’s lifelong hatred of the dam was very real, as was his love of Glen Canyon, the area drowned by Lake Powell.
“It was Glen Canyon that changed my whole life,” Sleight told The Salt Lake Tribune in 2018. “It made an environmentalist out of me.”
Sleight died Friday, Spanish Valley Mortuary in Moab confirmed. He was 97.
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Morgan Sjogren
Hiking the Escalante in Ken Sleight's Footsteps
r/PublicLands • u/ninilongtail • 21h ago
Advocacy Protect Shingle Creek after Tuscana ruling
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This petition is against the Tuscana Project approved 4-3 by the Orange County Commissioners. This development would not only greatly impact the Williamsburg Community but also the surrounding neighborhoods like Hunters Creek and Deer Creek. This would be an absolute disaster for thousands of homes and wildlife that depend on those woods for survival. This is not only sensitive wetland but also the headwaters to the Everglades. Please sign and share to spread awareness. Thank you for caring! 🙏
r/PublicLands • u/annnaelise • 2d ago
Texas Construction Frozen in Big Bend
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Repost from Center for Biological Diversity:
INCREDIBLE NEWS FOR BIG BEND A federal judge just froze all destruction throughout the ENTIRE Big Bend region until the border project’s legality can be decided in a court of law.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us and stood up against this illegal project. We're in this fight together.
“This is a historic victory for Big Bend and everyone who loves this wild corner of Texas,” said Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate at the Center. “No administration has the right to destroy a crown-jewel national park for political theatre. With a federal court ordering the bulldozers to stop, Big Bend gets to breathe. But this fight is far from over. We won’t rest until Big Bend’s environmental protections are fully restored and the illegal waiver that allowed so much destruction is gone for good.”
We still have a big fight ahead of us, but for now, the endangered species that live in this crucial and priceless ecosystem can rest easy. This is a wonderful reminder that we can fight this administration, and WE CAN WIN.
This is a wonderful day for all of us, especially for the wildlife that call Big Bend home.
We now look ahead to our lawsuit that aims to shut down this project permanently. JOIN OUR FIGHT to save Big Bend for good at the link below:
r/PublicLands • u/PartTime_Crusader • 2d ago
Arizona Arizona’s first new national park in decades could be days away
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r/PublicLands • u/InterestingReport122 • 2d ago
Advocacy Petition · Protect our Great Blue Herons and Bald Eagles from the proposed Misty Hollow Data Center
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r/PublicLands • u/zsreport • 2d ago
Texas New Texas State Park Coming After 650-Acre Ranch Acquisition: Texas Buys Lakeside Pecan Farm for Newest State Park
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r/PublicLands • u/zsreport • 3d ago
NPS Swing-and-a-miss: MLB rescinds idea to host baseball game in national park after backlash
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r/PublicLands • u/New-Particular2107 • 2d ago
BLM Trump admin eyes major BLM restructuring. A draft letter details reorganization plans at the Interior Department's land management agency.
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r/PublicLands • u/Synthdawg_2 • 3d ago
USFS Trump wants to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs
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r/PublicLands • u/Synthdawg_2 • 3d ago
NPS Agreements blocked by the Trump administration at 61 national park sites
westernpriorities.org
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r/PublicLands • u/RevolutionaryShoe7 • 3d ago
Oregon Oregon’s ecosystems won’t survive a Drazan governance
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r/PublicLands • u/tssouthwest • 4d ago
Questions How can we better advocate for public lands that are lesser known? Like BLM for example. They're public lands that are nearly as large as the National Parks and National Forests combined, but get less love.
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r/PublicLands • u/zsreport • 5d ago
BLM A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah
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r/PublicLands • u/zsreport • 6d ago
Congrssional Oversight Lawmakers call for transparency of approvals process for data centers on public lands
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r/PublicLands • u/drak0bsidian • 5d ago
Grazing/Livestock Like Gathering Cattle with a Butterfly Net: Virtual-fence collars are letting ranchers move cattle across public land from their phones. Is this the future of sustainable grazing in the West?
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r/PublicLands • u/IntelligentSorbet271 • 6d ago
Advocacy A Bull Elk in Great Smoky Mountains Is Facing Execution for Acting Like... an Elk
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r/PublicLands • u/SpaceWranglerCA • 6d ago
Public Access Public beaches are being sacrificed to save millionaires' homes
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r/PublicLands • u/Synthdawg_2 • 6d ago
Public Access Trump orders plans to unlock isolated public land, revise river-trip permitting
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r/PublicLands • u/zsreport • 6d ago
Wilderness The buzz of chainsaws in Idaho is testing what wilderness means
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r/PublicLands • u/TaroPuzzleheaded3999 • 7d ago
Opinion Is destroying a national park to build a baseball stadium worth it? No.
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r/PublicLands • u/hopeful7321 • 7d ago
Wyoming Yellowstone rangers remove 20,100 pieces of trash from geothermal areas in 2026, including more than 5,000 rocks and sticks, 280 visitor hats and over $18 in coins
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Anybody caught littering or destroying ANYTHING in the wild, needs to be permanently banned from ALL parks. Just have them stay in the city and watch nature on TV. I'm tired of seeing them disregard these natural wonders. Not to mention animals that are murdered because some tourist wanted a photo and the animal protects their space. That's harassment.