PSA#2: Always-insightful @wessiler.bsky.social on why bear spray is not effective and how to actually avoid a bear attack: wessiler.substack.com/p/bear-spray...? #bears 🌎

What feuding billionaires and 6,000 years old dinosaurs have to do with livestock permits on public land in Montana. And why that might help us overturn Citizens United. wessiler.substack.com/p/what-the-n...

RIP America's Most Popular Wildernesshttps://open.substack.com/pub/wessiler/p/republicans-vote-to-destroy-boundary?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=36iot

AltNPS has been focused on the threat to the US Forest Service this week, and even launched a website in an effort to pressure brands to speak out. And that's great! There's just one problem. They plagiarized the whole thing.

They just keep topping themselves with new evil‼️ Article by @wessiler.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

BREAKING: The Trump administration is removing Toni Morrison's "A Bench by the Road" project from South Carolina. The installation is based on the novel "Beloved" and serves as "historical markers that help remember the lives of Africans who were enslaved." wessiler.substack.com/p/heres-ever...

The administration is removing thousands of displays from national parks, covering everything from slavery to climate science. wessiler.substack.com/p/heres-ever...

Why are Trump and congressional Republicans destroying Boundary Waters—America’s most popular Wilderness area—with a copper mine that will leach sulfuric acid into its pristine waters? @wessiler.bsky.social follows the money: wessiler.substack.com/p/who-wins-i.... 🌎

substack.com/@wessiler/no... a very interesting conversation about shared values and human rights

We can beat them. wessiler.substack.com/p/the-plan-f...

Look what just dropped in my inbox. More common sense from those of us who understand what's going on. @wessiler.bsky.social

We're about to lose the most popular Wilderness in the country to sulfuric acid pollution because two hunting bros won't hold their buddy accountable for his lies and corruption: wessiler.substack.com/p/boundary-w...

2026 is going to be a hard year for public lands. The staff cuts from last year are starting to add up, even as Republican lawmakers prepare new threats. And the lawless administration looms over everything. open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

Worth mentioning that this political moment already resulted in an unprecedented cancellation of a proposed Refuge expansion that had been developed over a few admins www.texasmonthly.com/travel/texas...

Over the holidays, the administration quietly initiated a review of all Wildlife Refuges, something that could preface yet another attempt to steal your land: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

This is step 5 on the Republican's 7 step plan to destroy National Parks: wessiler.substack.com/p/new-mike-l...

Republicans in western states are pinning their hopes for reelection on worsened wildfires, ruined tourism, and defunded communities: wessiler.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

Some random guy on Substack should never be in a position to challenge essentially every fact presented on a 60 Minutes segment, and yet here we are... wessiler.substack.com/p/fact-check...

Department of Everything is Related to Everything Else: @wessiler.bsky.social has some interesting thoughts about how some dumb Trump policies (like tariffs and cheap oil) may mitigate the damage from other dumb Trump policies (trying to gut the Clean Water & Endangered Species Acts).

Or: How the invasion of Venezuela will save America's wetlands. wessiler.substack.com/p/what-moham...

Congress invoking CRA to declare public lands management plans "rules" it must approve happened due to Republican incompetence, and has far reaching implications that might render most current and future commercial operations on BLM and USFS land illegal. wessiler.substack.com/p/congress-b...

In a rare instance of genuinely good news, there's a promising new plan to render Citizens United moot. Here's why you shouldn't be surprised it comes from Montana: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

Short term damage during the shutdown doesn't look that bad, but the result accelerates the timeline for Trump's plan to sell off national parks: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

The Fix Our Forests Act is being billed as a bipartisan solution to our wildfire crisis. I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but it'll only make fires worse. Here's why: wessiler.substack.com/p/why-the-fi...

Lee claims Homeland Security would only takeover Wilderness Areas with 100 miles of a border, but Conservation orgs are sounding the alarm that this could open all 112 million acres protected by the Wilderness Act to logging, road building and militarization. wessiler.substack.com/p/mike-lee-i...

You've probably read a bunch of doom and gloom about the Trump admin re-re- opening ANWR to drilling. In reality, it's the best chance we have to start winning America's battle for its natural heritage. Here's why the rebellion will be led by polar bears: wessiler.substack.com/p/tumps-perm...

The timing of this shutdown couldn't be worse for bears. Close the parks. wessiler.substack.com/p/this-gover...

Interior is eliminating thousands of furloughed employees, despite a court order intended to halt such. Includes National Park Service, BLM, USFWS and more: wessiler.substack.com/p/interior-t...

The Senate just voted to invalidate every permit written on public land since 1996. wessiler.substack.com/p/the-senate...

Here's everything you need to know about the impacts the government shutdown will have on National Parks: wessiler.substack.com/p/a-comprehe...

“This is very close to being a worst case scenario. Parks will remain open with only a skeleton crew of only “excepted” staff,” by @wessiler.bsky.social 🌎

Just scooped this news. Stay tuned for updates and analysis: wessiler.substack.com/p/national-p...

How bad the shutdown might be for national parks will depend on two factors: its duration, and whether or not the parks remain accessible to the public: wessiler.substack.com/p/if-the-gov...

Past shutdowns have resulted in $36 million/day of damage to park infrastructure alone. This one could be worse: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

Welcome to the resistance, oil executives... open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

"Pretty much all" National Park employees could be RIF'd as part of Russell Vought's plan, should the government shutdown on Oct 1. open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

I wrote a four part series explaining all the ways the pro public lands world fails at communicating policy. Here's the conclusion explaining what we can achieve if we learn to do better: wessiler.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

In personal news, the right's persecution of free speech has come to outdoor media too: wessiler.substack.com/p/outside-ju...

(2 of 2) @wessiler.bsky.social remains forever memorable 'cause I've pointed numerous friends (+ 1 relation) to his brutally honest article about the dangers of motorcycle riding w/out proper gear. Incl. X-rays of multiply broken bones AND a pic of his very, very abraded ass. Did I mention honesty?

Everything you've ever read about the Public Lands Rule is wrong. And that's a great example of one of the problems that's created this current moment: wessiler.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

Weird Car Twitter #weirdcarBS one of us (though he doesn't know it) @wessiler.bsky.social is running for state senate in Montana. Wes gave me my first byline back when he ran RideApart, which he started as Hell For Leather, which was the Jalop of motorcycles.

Republicans may not have the support necessary to sell off publicl lands, so they're just going to break their operations and force privatization instead.

I needed to write a biography for an upcoming project I'll announce next month. Figured it'd be fun to share that: wessiler.substack.com/p/who-is-wes...

Trump's NPS is now inventing justifications to fire trans rangers.

Public lands might be out of the mainstream headlines, but they're very much front and center in the Trump admins attempts to enrich themselves: wessiler.substack.com/p/where-nati...

A likely quixotic attempt to explain to a MAGA influencer why tariffs will cost him his knife company: wessiler.substack.com/p/an-open-le...

Will park rangers be sent to Alligator Auschwitz for teaching history? wessiler.substack.com/p/how-far-ca...

Among the provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill are giveaways for coal extraction on public lands, plus a re entrenchment of oil and gas at the expense of renewables across 200 million acres.

Wondering why Lisa Murkowski voted yes on the awful budget reconciliation package? It's because the White House bought her off with a promise to let her destroy America's largest rainforest, and use taxpayer subsidies to sell its old growth timber to China on the cheap:

We won.