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The Senate caved to industry. The House still has a chance to stand with the public. Call your Representative now and demand they vote NO on the Senate's version of the One Big Betrayal Bill.
Phone and Script below. Action here: https://westernwatersheds.org/actionalerts/stophr1/
This week, the Public Lands Council—the national lobbying arm of the public lands ranching industry—sent a mid-year victory lap to its members. Their executive director proudly laid out what they’ve accomplished in just six months: rolling back environmental protections, gutting habitat safeguards, and reshaping federal land policy to better serve private livestock interests.
https://westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/progress-according-to-the-public
Wyoming Game and Fish Commission must stop dragging its feet and immediately recommend full designation of the Sublette Pronghorn Migration Corridor—all of it. Not just the segments deemed least inconvenient to the industries doing the most damage. The longer the state delays, the more habitat is lost. The more fencing goes up. The more roads are bulldozed. And the more we fail the wild. This corridor doesn’t need more politics. It needs protection.
The wetsalts tiger beetles in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem are yet another example of the bounty of scientific research in what Peterson called “the fantastic natural laboratory” that is Yellowstone.
Yellowstone National Park is full of grizzlies, wolves and elusive mountain lions. But the apex predators of the park might be those tiny tiger beetles that thrive around thermal pools — and hunt and kill everything else.
Sen. Mike Lee’s dream of liquidating the West just collapsed under the weight of its own hubris.
His plan to force the sale of over a million acres of BLM land—disguised as housing reform—was met with rare, bipartisan outrage.
From hunters to river guides, the public pushed back hard. And tonight, Lee withdrew the provision, blaming everyone but himself. The White House wanted it. Senate leadership gave it room. But the backlash was too big to ignore. For now, the public still owns the West.
The latest update: The redlines are in—and let’s be clear: the core purpose of this bill remains unchanged. It’s a mass privatization scheme dressed up as housing reform. A calculated dismantling of public ownership, repackaged as “disposal.” A land grab by any other name.
https://westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/lipstick-on-a-land-grab-sen-mike
Confused about the budget process and public lands provisions? Give this one a listen! WWP's Josh Osher covers land sell-offs, too, of course.
https://ourpubliclandspodcast.substack.com/p/33-the-big-ugly-public-lands-bill
Listen now | Confused about the budget process and public lands provisions? Give this one a listen! We cover land sell-offs, too, of course.
They’re testing how much outrage they can weather. Let’s give them their answer.
https://westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/not-one-acre-the-public-land-sell
It's a land heist on a scale that hasn’t been seen since the land-rush days of the 1800s. And if we know what’s good for us, we have to stop it.
https://westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/this-land-was-your-land-but-now-its
As conservationists, Juneteenth calls us to reckon with the exclusion of Black Americans from the land they labored on—and to build a future where public lands serve all.
https://westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/the-land-was-never-free
