Welcome
They were never supposed to become profit centers. Not the parks, not the forests, not the deserts, not the mountains.
But right now, senators are trying to sell them. Agencies are gutting ranger staffing to justify privatization. The BLM is rewriting management plans to quadruple old-growth logging. And most of it is secretly enough that nobody notices until it’s too late.
We make sure people notice.
We’re Jim and Will Pattiz. We’ve spent over a decade exploring, filming, and writing about America’s public lands. We’ve been to places most people will never hear about and campsites that don’t make it onto the listicles.
Now we use what we’ve learned to do two things: help people experience these places the way they deserve to be experienced, and fight like hell for the ones being threatened.
What you’ll find here
When someone comes for your public lands, we break the story and name every politician involved. Then we give you tools to fight back: call scripts for Congress, public comment generators, deadline countdowns. Then we follow up when reader pressure actually wins.
Our reporting helped block a 500,000-acre land sell-off. Reader comments flooded the BLM during the Oregon old-growth logging fight. Public pressure forced a lawmaker to withdraw a national park selloff. This stuff works because enough people show up.
Between the fights, we share what a decade on the ground has taught us. The trails that don’t make the top-ten lists. How to beat the crowds. The parks and public lands most people drive right past. The kind of knowledge you only get from actually being out there.
What You Get
Free subscribers get every major investigation and breaking report the day it drops. We don’t gate the important stuff.
Paid subscribers keep us on the road, in the parks, and naming names. Your subscription funds the reporting, the Threat Tracker, the tools, and the films. No ads. No industry money. Just readers.
Over 20,000 people read this newsletter. The ones who pay are the reason it exists.
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This isn’t a newsletter you read and forget. This is a growing community of people who show up. Thousands of public comments submitted. Major legislative wins driven by subscriber pressure. The best interactive tools that actual move the needle. And we’re just getting started.
