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The Public Lands Reading Room, Vol. 1
Books, photography, stories, and other things worth sharing from the people who love America’s public lands.
Oct 10
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Will Pattiz
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More Than Just Parks
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103 Comments From This Community Helped Save 4 Million Board Feet of Trees in Oregon
Our new public lands action tool generated nearly one third of all comments on a major Forest Service proposal. What this community just accomplished is…
Oct 9
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More Than Just Parks
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Meet Benji Backer. The Right’s Greenwashing Wunderkind
How a young conservative operative built a fake conservation movement — and got Washington and the media to believe it.
Oct 8
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Jim Pattiz
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More Than Just Parks
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Introducing The Ambler Road Project: America’s Next Big Public Lands Battle Starts Here
We spent months photographing, mapping and documenting the Ambler Road. Now the first mine it was built to reach has entered federal permitting, and the…
Oct 6
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Will Pattiz
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Jim Pattiz
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More Than Just Parks
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Just One Day Left to Tell the Forest Service: Keep the Roadless Rule
The Forest Service closes public comment October 6. If you haven’t weighed in yet, we built a tool that makes it incredibly easy and meaningful.
Oct 5
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Will Pattiz
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More Than Just Parks
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9,000-Acre Nuclear-Powered Data Center Proposed on Public Lands in Utah
The proposal calls for 456 small nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel production and nuclear waste storage. On the same day it surfaced, Sen. Ron Wyden…
Oct 1
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Will Pattiz
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More Than Just Parks
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September 2026
Introducing the National Data Center Map
America is undergoing an enormous industrial buildout with remarkably little public visibility. So we built the map and tracker that should already…
Sep 30
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More Than Just Parks
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Jim Pattiz
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Will Pattiz
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Nearly 5 Million Acres of Oregon National Forests Could Lose Key Protections. Deadline Wednesday.
More logging. Fewer protections for big trees, roadless country and wildlife. Another sweeping change to America’s public lands is moving fast.
Sep 28
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Will Pattiz
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More Than Just Parks
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How Many Old Growth Trees Does Steinway Need?
Inside the legendary piano maker’s appetite for some of America’s last great ancient forests.
Sep 24
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Will Pattiz
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More Than Just Parks
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We Built the Ultimate Fall Color Tracker. Here’s When Every National Park, Forest, and County in America Peaks.
After more than a decade chasing peak color across America, we built the foliage map we always wanted.
Sep 23
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Will Pattiz
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Jim Pattiz
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More Than Just Parks
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We Built a National Map of Motorized Routes Across America’s National Forests. Comment Today.
The Forest Service is preparing to rewrite where vehicles can go on national forests. We built a map and comment tool before Wednesday’s deadline.
Sep 22
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Will Pattiz
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More Than Just Parks
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Jim Pattiz
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URGENT: Forest Service Fast-Tracks Logging Across 10,000 Acres of Oregon National Forest. Deadline Today.
The Forest Service is rushing a massive post-fire logging project through a seven-day public comment window. The deadline is tonight.
Sep 21
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Will Pattiz
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More Than Just Parks
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