United By Nature Launches Campaign to Unite Americans for Conservation Efforts Join the Going Public campaign by United By Nature, celebrating America’s public lands and promoting conservation efforts nationwide.

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Ohioans Demand Stronger Protections for State Lands and Water Resources In Ohio, residents raise concerns about the potential leasing of public lands for fracking, advocating for better water and land protections.

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What the government shutdown means for public lands - High Country News Many parks will stay open, and oil and gas permitting will continue — even as tens of thousands of staff are furloughed at NPS, BLM and USFS.

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‼ Oil & gas permitting will move forward, as will inspections at oil & gas & logging operations. BLM staff responsible for processing oil & gas permits, coal mining leases & “other energy & mineral resources necessary for energy production” will stay at work. #Public_Lands #fossil_fuels #mining

Decades of public-lands planning, overturned in a day - High Country News The House voted to nullify three Bureau of Land Management plans, and critics fear many more could follow.

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📌 Decades of public-lands planning, overturned in a day

Resource management plans are guidelines for how the BLM manages the public lands it oversees. They're developed through a lengthy process that combines local and tribal input with #environmental review. #Public_lands ino.to/jPlg55c

Public land sale a ‘frontal assault on tribal treaty rights’ - High Country News Senate Republicans’ proposed legislation to sell off public lands could have unique impacts on tribal nations.

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🎯 Lands that tribal members use for cultural purposes, hunting or fishing could be privatized. “Assuming the premise that we should be considering selling public lands, why would we do it in this way that can take from Indian people without their consent?” #Treaty_Rights #Budget #Public_Lands

Senate Republicans want to sell 3 million acres of public land - High Country News The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

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🎯 The proposal’s broad language differed from the House version that focused on lands already identified for disposal in resource management plans.

“This Senate version is just open season on public lands.” #Public_Lands #Senate