Our Public Lands & Waters
Our Public Lands & Waters is an independent one-man publication about U.S. public lands and waters, wildlife, conservation, and sustainable outdoor recreation.
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Forest Service Moves to Reduce Public Oversight and Public Comments on Its Policies
On Tuesday, June 30, the U.S. Forest Service proposed a quiet but potentially far-reaching rewrite of how it governs itself—one that could make many of the agency’s internal rules easier to waive, easier to revise and, in some cases, easier...
Struggling Fish and Wildlife Service Celebrates Its Birthday. Meanwhile, Anti-Conservationists Trump and Burgum Pretend to Be Teddy Roosevelt
In 1939, the federal Bureau of Fisheries and Bureau of Biological Survey, which were then respectively under the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture, were transferred to the Department of the Interior.
This was the first step in a reor...
Interior Department Gives DNA of Public Endangered Wildlife to Private "De-extinction" Company (Which Has Ties to Secretary Burgum)
Today, June 25, 2026, the Interior Department announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to “advance the use of biobanking and genomic science.”
The MOU is between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Colossal Biosciences, a self-desc...
Senate Republicans Advance Bill That Nullifies the Overwhelmingly Popular Roadless Rule
“The biggest issue here, the elephant in the room, is the fact that wildfire legislation became a Trojan horse for repealing the Roadless Rule. That’s the tail wagging the dog. That is a huge change for our country.” - Senator Martin Heinr...
Feds Waive 31 Environmental and Resource Protection Laws to Blast Barriers and Bulldoze Roads in Big Bend National Park
“This decision will be remembered by generations of Texans—and all Americans—as a waste of our money and an assault on not just our iconic desert but on the values that our national parks epitomize.” - Bob Krumenaker, former Big Bend Natio...
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