The Trump Administration's Department of the Interior (DOI) is, once again, doing its level best to parcel out and sell off our public lands. And this latest attack is one that shows how the DOI and the Administration will attack, piece by piece, the lands that make this country great, the lands that you and I use to off-road, hunt, fish, camp, and otherwise recreate, and sell it off to the highest bidder without public input or acknowledging that we all don't want this.
Up in Alaska, along the Dalton Highway—the mostly gravel road that can be seen in a number of motorcycling documentaries, as well as being one of the spots I desperately want to ride myself—the Department of the Interior used a Public Land Order (PLO) to remove the federal protections on the land that stradles the highway. If you're unfamiliar with the Dalton and its surrounding ecosystem, it's home to caribou, migratory birds, and some seriously pristine wilderness the likes that you just don't get outside of Alaska.
