We Built a Public Tracker for Threatened Public Lands. It’s Live.

We made this ourselves. Now we need your help to make it better.

We’ve been working on something quietly for months.

It’s not perfect. It’s not even close to fully finished. But it’s real, and it’s finally live.

It took longer than we thought it would. The information is scattered, hard to access, and often intentionally buried. Creating something this scale, while juggling everything else we do, hasn't been easy. But we wanted to get it right.

It’s called the Threatened Public Lands Map.

The idea is simple - show where public lands are under threat and explain what’s happening. Logging. Mining. Drilling. Development. Who’s behind it. What agency approved it. What can still be done.

That’s where we’re headed. This is version 1.0. A starting point.

Usually around this time of year, we publish our updated National Park rankings to kick off National Park Week or lament how lame National Park Week is compared to what it should be. But this year is different. There’s more at stake than which park has the best views or the quietest trails. The threats to publi…