Why Martin Heinrich Sold Out Public Lands
Senators trust New Mexico’s Martin Heinrich as a public lands champion. His record says they shouldn’t.
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Democrats Just Won Everything. Now Kill the Permitting Bill
Last night was historic. Monday is the first test of whether Democrats know what to do with it.
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Senate bill would let Trump permit anything, anywhere, forever.
The Roadless Rule rescission: what the 2026 comment record says
The comments, bundled letters and signatures on the proposed rule to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, August 20 to October 6, 2026: the full count, form letters, one-of-a-kind comments, who filed on letterhead, and how this comment period differs from the 2025 one.
Cite as More Than Just Parks analysis of regulations.gov docket FS-2025-0001, 2026 proposed-rule comment period, https://morethanjustparks.com/news/reports/roadless-docket
Final, last revised Oct 9. Figures re-derived from the record . Free to cite
1,197,510comments, letters and signatures on the proposed rule, 2026 comment period
390,064comments posted one by one at regulations.gov on the proposed rule
69.8%of the 390,061 comments compared arrived through 177 form-letter campaigns
104,719comments match no other on the docket
99.8%of the 271,840 form-letter copies read for a side ask to keep the rule
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Federal Judge Freezes Forest Service Dismantling, Says USDA “Almost Certainly” Broke the LawUSDA leaders spent six months defying the spending laws Congress wrote to stop them.
Data Centers Are the New DamsAmerica spent the twentieth century remaking its rivers for the industrial age.
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Meet Benji Backer. The Right’s Greenwashing WunderkindHow a young conservative operative built a fake conservation movement — and got Washington and the media to believe…
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Just One Day Left to Tell the Forest Service: Keep the Roadless RuleThe Forest Service closes public comment October 6.
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Blackstone ForeverDoug Burgum sat in front of an erupting Old Faithful and thanked a Wall Street landlord and its AI power company for…
Forest Service Greenlights Tongass Old-Growth Clearcut Despite New EvidenceOnly 1.5% of old-growth remains and there’s still time to stop it.
Senate Permitting Bill Is a Betrayal of Our Public LandsYears of extraction-industry propaganda are weeks from paying off, thanks to two powerful Senate Democrats
Federal Judge Freezes Forest Service Dismantling, Says USDA “Almost Certainly” Broke the LawUSDA leaders spent six months defying the spending laws Congress wrote to stop them.
Data Centers Are the New DamsAmerica spent the twentieth century remaking its rivers for the industrial age.
We Examined Who Actually Supported Repealing the Roadless Rule. The Results Tell a Remarkable StoryWe dug through hundreds of organizational filings to find out who wanted one of America’s most important forest…
The Public Lands Reading Room, Vol. 1Books, photography, stories, and other things worth sharing from the people who love America’s public lands.
103 Comments From This Community Helped Save 4 Million Board Feet of Trees in OregonOur new public lands action tool generated nearly one third of all comments on a major Forest Service proposal.
Meet Benji Backer. The Right’s Greenwashing WunderkindHow a young conservative operative built a fake conservation movement — and got Washington and the media to believe…
Introducing The Ambler Road Project: America’s Next Big Public Lands Battle Starts HereWe spent months photographing, mapping and documenting the Ambler Road.
Just One Day Left to Tell the Forest Service: Keep the Roadless RuleThe Forest Service closes public comment October 6.
9,000-Acre Nuclear-Powered Data Center Proposed on Public Lands in UtahThe proposal calls for 456 small nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel production and nuclear waste storage.
Introducing the National Data Center MapAmerica is undergoing an enormous industrial buildout with remarkably little public visibility.
Nearly 5 Million Acres of Oregon National Forests Could Lose Key ProtectionsMore logging.
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Inside the old growth that survived a century of saws, and the fight over what remains.
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