The Wild Line

The Forest Service opened a comment period on a proposed rule that would narrow public input into how national forests are managed, with the window closing July 31. This week’s Wild Line also tracks a new Interior Department genomics partnership with “de-extinction” company Colossal Biosciences, a lawsuit testing the limits of the Congressional Review Act over an Oregon timber sale, a volunteer-built replacement for the shuttered Climate.gov, and the loss of three wildland firefighters in western Colorado.

The Senate Agriculture Committee’s Farm Bill draft includes wilderness designations for over 100,000 acres in Virginia, an Arkansas wilderness expansion, and protected forestland in southern Illinois. This week’s Wild Line also tracks Kevin Lilly’s confirmation hearing, Interior’s proposed rollback of oil and gas safeguards, a leaked memo threatening recommended wilderness in Montana’s Flathead National Forest, a Forest Service emergency salvage sale with a one-week comment window, and NPS restrictions on fatality reporting.

Weekly policy roundup covering new wilderness management directives on climbing anchors, expanded grazing on national forests, the America the Beautiful Act, Grand Staircase-Escalante protections, and Big Bend border construction, with updates on federal public lands and conservation policy.

Weekly policy roundup covering the Arctic Refuge lease sale, a Forest Service off-road vehicle memo, Senator Mike Lee’s move against the Roadless Rule, and six new national trails, with updates on federal public lands and conservation policy.

Weekly policy roundup covering Trump’s repeal of ORV protections on public lands, House appropriations cuts to national parks and the EPA, the collapse of federal farmer conservation program funding, and the withdrawal of NSF deep-sea ocean monitoring stations, with updates on federal public lands and conservation policy.

Weekly policy roundup covering the Protect Gulf Life Act, $67M in national park fee diversion, Forest Service fuels reduction decline, and surface transportation conservation wins, with updates on federal public lands and conservation policy.

Weekly policy roundup covering Steve Pearce’s BLM confirmation, cyanide trap restoration, Recreation.gov bot abuse, FY27 appropriations, and a new free shuttle expanding outdoor access in Colorado.

Weekly policy roundup covering the BLM Conservation and Landscape Health Rule rescission, Interior Secretary Burgum’s wilderness remarks, North Atlantic right whale protections, Frank Church Wilderness chainsaw authorization, and Colorado wildlife crossing legislation, with updates on federal public lands and conservation policy.

Weekly policy roundup covering Steve Pearce’s BLM nomination vote, American Prairie bison permit revocations, Alaska’s Ambler Road land transfer, Frank Church Wilderness chainsaw authorization, and Ted Turner’s conservation legacy

Weekly policy roundup covering the NPS nominee withdrawal, Forest Service glyphosate spraying, Corridor H highway lawsuit, San Joaquin River mine threat, the Shared Ground housing and public lands framework, Montana public lands polling, and the Red Rock Legacy Trail opening, with updates on federal public lands and conservation policy.

This week on The Wild Line, we’re tracking a major Endangered Species Act victory on Capitol Hill, proposed Forest Service rule changes that would open wilderness areas to chainsaws and fast-track mining exploration on national forest land, Interior and Agriculture...

This week on The Wild Line, we're tracking the Senate's passage of a Congressional Review Act resolution to enable mining in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the Forest Service's proposed headquarters relocation to Salt Lake City, the...