Whether you enjoy public lands to camp, fish, hike, climb, hunt, ride, or drive on, there's one thing that ties each discipline together: no matter your tribe, those lands are under attack right now.
I get it, that's a helluva opener, one that's sure to piss a lot of people off for a variety of reasons. But it's the truth. We've already talked about how the incoming administration has prioritized selling off and developing public lands, despite the public's approval of said lands, many times before. And when the Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development came together to state they were looking to develop public lands for "affordable housing," I called bullshit on that too, picking apart its litany of falsehoods used to justify selling off land to housing developers.
And now, according to the latest Executive Order from President Donald J. Trump, more of those public lands are under threat with his "Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production," which basically opens up all public lands to be strip-mined and sold off to extractive industries.
