A new leak reveals just how far Trump is going to decimate the National Park Service. The playbook goes like this: crush morale, force rangers to quit, hollow out the agency and let parks fall into disrepair. Then they'll call parks “mismanaged” and invite private interests in to pillage them.

A new leak reveals just how far Trump is going to decimate the National Park Service. The playbook goes like this: crush morale, force rangers to quit, hollow out the agency and let parks fall into disrepair. Then they'll call parks “mismanaged” and invite private interests in to pillage them.

A top official told colleagues that a change to a National Park Service employee policy was part of a “reign of terror.”

This is how public lands are lost. Not all at once. Not with a single vote. But through smiling press conferences, hollow assurances & “partnerships” with people who have proven, repeatedly, that they cannot be trusted with what belongs to the public. morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/utah-seize...

And to be crystal clear: THEY ARE NEGLECTING IT SO THEY CAN JUSTIFY DISPOSING OF IT.

Trump axed National Park Service staff by 25%. This is insane. When I worked for NPS from 2015-2017 we were backlogged, understaffed & visitor services slammed. I can't imagine working on the inside now. Not even America's best idea is spared from Trump's madness. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

Despite ongoing border wall construction, a new ocelot & a new jaguar have arrived in AZ. “We may be the last Arizonans to share mountains where jaguars & ocelots still roam” McSpadden said. “I think history will judge us... if we fail to protect this rare, wild freedom.” tucson.com/news/local/s...

It’s not just the ICE terror in Minnesota. This admin is continuing to tear up the borderlands, militarize communities, crush the endangered species, and wall people off from nature while pissing away billions of our tax dollars. Now they're obliterating one of my favorite places in south Texas:

When a motorsports outlet sounds the alarm about Utah's attempt to exert control over federal public lands, Gov Cox oughta listen. Just like Mike Lee, Cox's goal here kick the public off our shared land & turn it over to industry pillage. Everyone opposes that. www.rideapart.com/news/784140/...

Rep. Vasquez slams Trump plan to burn $1.6 BILLION on border walls where nobody crosses with crossings at record lows. “It’s ironic that by building roads that lead right to the border, the admin is making it easier for folks to enter our country illegally.” fox5sandiego.com/news/border-...

The New York Post & Daily Mail are circulating a fake story on an outdated issue using a recycled quote I gave Nat Geo 6 years ago. No attribution, no context, no current relevance. They're trying to drum up conservative rage to cover for the atrocities this admin is committing across the nation.

Don't be fooled. This is a backdoor push to advance the privatization of 8 million acres of public national forests by chipping away at public ownership. Just like Mike Lee, Cox's only goal here kick the public off our shared land & turn it over to industry pillage. www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

“It’s been chaos, for staff,” said one NPS entrance booth staffer. “A lot of people just turn around, some people yell and get angry. It’s an outrageous fee, it’s like we are telling people we don’t want them here. It’s not in the spirit of national parks.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

BREAKING: the Trump admin is green-lighting Utah's attempt to assert control over 8 million acres of public land without a vote, notice or public input. After failing to seize public lands outright, Utah is chipping away at at public land ownership at large. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Breaking: Trump's pick to lead the BLM is a walking conflict of interest and an anti-environment extremist who's encouraged vigilantes to seize control of federal public lands. We’re sounding the alarm to Senate leaders. Read the letter, signed by 81 orgs: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

The Department of the Interior just banned putting stickers over Trump's face on National Park Passes. National parks are not a personal branding opportunity. They’re the pride and joy of the American people. We've already sued over this ridiculous stunt. More soon. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

"Pearce's track record screams danger, warned Laiken Jordahl, a national public lands advocate at @biologicaldiversity.org. An obsessed Pearce spent years flogging off America's public lands to the highest bidder, Jordahl wrote Thursday for the Arizona Mirror."

Razor wire is "spreading like a cancer" across the border lands, posing grave risks of entanglement and death to wildlife, including jaguars and ocelots, while doing little to stop migrants' crossings. tucson.com/news/local/s...

COMMENTARY: Putting Steve Pearce at the helm of BLM would put Arizona’s cherished landscapes at risk of being stripped of protections, ransacked by extractive industries and sold to the highest bidder.

@biologicaldiversity.org is suing to wipe Trump's face off the America the Beautiful National Parks pass. By law, the pass must display the winning photo of a federal #PublicLands picture contest. Instead, Trump plastered his own face on it. Trump's vanity pass is not American, beautiful, or legal

Steve Pearce, Trump's nominee to lead the BLM, might be the single biggest threat Western public lands have ever seen. He's long been obsessed with selling off our natural heritage & urged local governments to take control of federally protected public lands. We must stop him.

A rare bit of good news: a federal judge just ruled DHS can’t use the government shutdown as an excuse to stall our border wall lawsuit while construction barrels ahead through critical jaguar habitat in the San Rafael Valley. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Oil tycoon Steve Pearce is a disastrous pick to run the BLM. He's long pushed for the liquidation of public lands & championed efforts to obliterate national monuments. Just like Sen. Lee, he'll be chomping at the bit so sell our public lands off to corporations & billionaires. He's also a creep.

“We’re already seeing drought stress, with half the mature oaks in the valley dead,” Palma said. “The wall will only accelerate the collapse. You lose the trees, you lose the shade. The creek dries, the habitat dies. It’s a cascade of ecological devastation.” azluminaria.org/2025/10/07/a...

This interview with my dear colleague Russ McSpadden is a phenomenal roundup of our work to stop Trump's absurd and irreversibly destructive push to wall off Arizona's San Rafael Valley. And if you're not already following @peccarynotpig.bsky.social, you should!

Excited to share this! Join us to celebrate the release of BORDERLINGS, the debut book of poems from environmental activist RUSS MCSPADDEN, Saturday October 18, 2025, 6:30pm doors, 7pm reading and book signing. Free & all-ages. Che's Lounge, 350 N. 4th Ave, Tucson Published by Artspeak Press.

The Trump administration is declaring a bogus emergency and tossing aside decades of hard-won environmental protections to fast-track wall construction. It's yet another senseless attack on the wildlife and communities of California’s borderlands. inewsource.org/2025/09/24/h...

Breaking: First new sections of Trump border wall are going up in the San Rafael Valley. This is an ecological catastrophe for the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, especially for the endangered jaguars and ocelots that move across the border here. READ: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Arizona's San Pedro River is being sucked dry. Yesterday, one of its main monitoring wells dried up, violating a court order guaranteeing water minimums. Dire implications for myriad endangered species & millions of neo-tropical songbirds that depend on it. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

We’re suing DHS over their waiver of environmental laws to bulldoze a border wall across Arizona’s remote San Rafael Valley. Jaguars, ocelots and a host of other species will be stopped dead in their tracks if this wall goes up. Construction crews arrived this week.

Survey stakes are in the ground at the San Rafael Valley, where DHS is preparing to wall off the last best corridor in Arizona for jaguars, ocelots & other species. Not a soul in sight.

The earth crushers have arrived at the San Rafael Valley. No words to describe the absurdity of building a wall across this peaceful, desolate wilderness.

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Breaking: Trump's DHS waives all enviro laws to wall off premier Texas Wildlife Refuge. There’s a special cruelty in walling off a wildlife refuge created for conservation. All under the guise of a fake emergency, as border crossings are at record lows. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

Great piece on the ongoing militarization of Friendship Park by @yessfun.com. Remarkable to read First Lady Pat Nixon's words “I hate to see a fence anywhere,” as she asked security to cut the barbed wire separating U.S. from MX to join the people on the other side. atmos.earth/once-a-rever...

Trump weighs in on Oak Flat, calling the Indigenous Tribes fighting it “Anti-American.”

Then, read the full report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social to learn more. This report documents the San Rafael Valley’s biodiversity, the species it sustains, and its indispensable role in the survival of endangered wildlife. ➡️ biodiv.us/4l1iGfb

A recent Center report found that a new border barrier, in a remote part of Arizona, would threaten one of the most important remaining animal migration routes on the state’s southern border. Check out the @nytimes.com feature about it. ⬇️

BREAKING: The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump Admin today for unconstitutionally waiving dozens of enviro laws to speed border wall construction across San Rafael Valley in AZ’s Sky Island region, a biodiversity hotspot w/the most significant jaguar corridor remaining along border.

We just sued the Trump administration for waiving dozens of environmental laws to speed border wall construction through the San Rafael Valley in Arizona’s Sky Island region. More info: biodiv.us/462nspc

Proud to have co-authored this report with the amazing Russ McSpadden on the imminent harm border wall construction poses to the last best jaguar corridor between the U.S. & Mexico. This are has seen the highest number of jaguar detections anywhere in the U.S. biologicaldiversity.org/species/mamm...

Check out our new report by Center staff @peccarynotpig.bsky.social and @laikenjordahl.bsky.social that exposes how plans for new border wall construction in southeast Arizona pose dire threats to one of the last remaining jaguar corridors between the U.S. and Mexico. ➡️ biodiv.us/4nCzRX3

BREAKING: Sen Lee's disgraceful attempt to sell off our public lands is stripped from the Senate budget bill. A truly historic coalition of enviros, hunters, Tribal leaders, mountain bikers, MAGA rednecks & almost every American united to DEFEAT MIKE LEE. biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...

BREAKING: Sen. Mike Lee is STILL trying to sell off public land. He just released a FOURTH version of his reconciliation language, and it keeps getting worse. It doesn't look like this version has been reviewed by the parliamentarian, but he's still trying. 🧵: www.energy.senate.gov/services/fil...

"It's just small percentage of barren BLM scrubland." I wonder which one of Mike Lee's billionaire buddies is eyeing this stunning BLM parcel near Green River, Utah--land that would be up for auction under his Senate bill text--for a private ranch?

Senator Mike Lee is one hell of a coalition builder. He's got granola hippies locking arms with MAGA trophy hunters & motorheads, and the Center for Biological Diversity on the same side as Ryan Zinke. The whole West is united against him.

Don’t forget to call your Senators/Reps and demand they vote against the largest sell-off of public lands in U.S. history, which will likely be voted on tomorrow. Today from Wyoming:

The redlines are in—& let’s be clear: the core purpose of this bill remains unchanged. It’s a mass privatization scheme dressed up as housing reform. A calculated dismantling of public ownership, repackaged as “disposal.” A land grab by any other name. westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/lipstick-o...

Senator Mike Lee’s newly amended sell-off plan isn’t a compromise — it’s the largest disposal of public lands in U.S. history. We say HELL NO.