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The Words We Reach For When the Fight Gets Long
This week, like most weeks, somebody in Washington is working to hand a piece of public land to someone who wants to drill it, log it, mine it, or sell it. That’s the job we signed up to fight, and some days the fight is exhausting.
When i...
One Sentence in the Constitution Stands Between You and the Sale of the West
Picture the Wallowas in northeast Oregon. The Owyhee canyonlands. The Red Desert in Wyoming, start of the longest mule deer migration corridor in the lower forty-eight, a hundred and fifty miles each way. Picture Bears Ears, the Boundary Wa...
BREAKING: Oregon Attorneys File Historic Lawsuit to Fight CRA Abuse on Public Lands
For eight months, Congress has been swinging the Congressional Review Act at America’s public lands like a wrecking ball. Today, an Oregon attorney caught it on the backswing.
When Congress voted in 2025 to take the CRA to a stack of land...
Trump Admin Pushes More Public Lands Oil Cleanup Costs to Taxpayers
Here’s a deal nobody offered you, and you’re about to fund it.
An oil company leases a piece of your public land. It drills a well, pulls the oil, and posts a $10,000 bond up front as a promise to clean up the site when the well runs dry....
Inside Trump’s Secret War on America’s Hunters & Anglers
A More Than Just Parks interactive investigation. Open the live map and the full story here.
A pregnant mule deer doe leaves the Red Desert in early March and starts walking north. She’ll walk one hundred and fifty miles before summer. She...
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Our goal here is simple – to share the beauty of our national parks & public lands to encourage greater protection. We're two brothers trying to make a difference by creating helpful national park guides, award-winning films, & breathtaking photos.
Will Pattiz is an award-winning filmmaker & conservationist who serves as the co-founder of More Than Just Parks. Will has spent his entire adult life capturing the beauty of our public lands in an effort to protect them for future generations.
Jim Pattiz is an award-winning filmmaker and conservationist who serves as the co-founder of More Than Just Parks. Jim has spent his career traveling to America’s most wild & precious spaces telling the stories of public lands.
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