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More Than Just Parks

@morethanjustparks.bsky.social
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Public lands face mounting threats: exploitation, overcrowding, underfunding, privatization, climate, & policies that prioritize profit over preservation. Founded by award-winning filmmakers & conservationists, the Pattiz Brothers. morethanjustparks.com

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More Than Just Parks @morethanjustparks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Introducing PLAN, the public lands accountability tool that gives the power back to the people to hold their government accountable for what's being done to our public lands. Think of it as 5 Calls for public lands. Share it and help Americans protect our national treasures.
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Introducing PLAN, the Tool That Finds Every Public Lands Fight Open for Comment Right Now
The Public Lands Action Network is a free tool that finds every public lands decision open for comment and helps you write the one comment the law makes them answer.
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More Than Just Parks @morethanjustparks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The attack on Grand Staircase-Escalante is dead. For now. The plan governing 1.87 million acres of southern Utah canyon country is still standing. Mike Lee threw the full weight of the Utah delegation at it, and it just failed in his hands.
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A Major Win at Grand Staircase
A coalition of readers, tribal nations, scientists, and Utahns just beat one of the most powerful public lands villains in Washington. Anyone who says your phone calls don’t matter wasn’t watching.
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More Than Just Parks @morethanjustparks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
On March 4, Mike Lee and Rep. Celeste Maloy filed twin resolutions to do something no Congress has ever done to a national monument. They don't shrink Grand Staircase-Escalante. They don't touch the 1996 proclamation. They don't redraw the map.
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The House Vote That Decides Grand Staircase’s Future Has Arrived
Two members of Congress want to permanently dismantle the monument’s management plan. The House is where we stop them.
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More Than Just Parks @morethanjustparks.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
They just voted to sell the Boundary Waters to a Chilean mining company so the copper can go to China. The vote was 50-49. Remember every one of those 50 names. The fight isn't over. Read the full breakdown of what happens next. morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-r...
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BREAKING: Republicans Vote to Poison Boundary Waters – America's Most Beloved Wilderness
Republicans in the U.S. Senate voted to revoke protections for the Boundary Waters watershed and allow a toxic foreign-owned mine to go forward.
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More Than Just Parks @morethanjustparks.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
They’re literally calling it a “disposal” of public lands. Disposal. Like expired meat. Like broken furniture. Nevada’s gov just signed a deal with the BLM to identify federal lands to be cleared and sold. This isn’t a rogue state. This is federal policy. The BLM is not resisting. They are all in.
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Nevada Governor and BLM Sign Agreement to Release Federal Lands for Development
They’re literally calling it a “disposal of public lands” as if shared wilderness, sacred ground, and national inheritance are garbage to be cleared and sold.
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More Than Just Parks @morethanjustparks.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Big news: we just launched the Threatened Public Lands Tracker. It’s the most detailed interactive tool we’ve ever built showing exactly where our public lands are under threat, who’s behind it, and what’s being done. morethanjustparks.com/threatened-p... #nationalparks #publiclands
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Threatened Public Lands Map | More Than Just Parks
Interactive map tracking current threats to America's public lands. Explore environmental challenges, report new threats, and take action to protect these precious landscapes.
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More Than Just Parks @morethanjustparks.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Public lands were never just about the land. They were about the promise — that these places would be managed by and for the people. That a kid from anywhere, with nothing but a backpack and a sense of wonder, could stand in the same valley as a president and feel just as entitled to be there.
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America’s National Parks Are Being Airbnb’d
How Private Interests Are Quietly Rewriting the Rules of America’s Public Lands
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Will Pattiz @willpattiz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
“Beware the man who checks your air! Who measures toxins, shows he cares. The EPA’s most wanted thug— he traced the leak and pulled the plug! Be warned: the ranger at their post, who tells your kids what matters most…” #nationalparks #publiclands
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An Ode to the Public Servants Who Must Be Stopped
They protected the public interest. Someone had to stop them.
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More Than Just Parks @morethanjustparks.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Under this order, the default use of federally managed land—especially land with known or suspected mineral reserves—is no longer conservation, recreation, or cultural preservation. It’s extraction.
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Now Public Lands Are Being Militarized for Mining
Because nothing says freedom like bulldozing the backcountry with Pentagon funding.
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More Than Just Parks @morethanjustparks.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Quick bubble-burster for some frequent commenters: The states never owned America’s public lands. Nope. Not then. Not now. Not ever. So why won't this myth die? Who benefits from keeping it alive? And why should you care? #nationalparks #publiclands #environment
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Who Started the Lie That We Should "Return Public Lands to the States"?
Why the call to “give land back” to states is historically wrong, strategically deceptive, and incredibly dangerous.
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More Than Just Parks @morethanjustparks.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It’s happening right now. Hundreds of millions of public lands are being handed over to the logging industry. We’re told that this logging—sorry, "active forest management"—is necessary to stop the "megafires" threatening communities. There’s just one problem: It’s completely false.
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The National Forest Logging Scam—And Who’s Profiting From It
They claim it’s wildfire prevention. In reality, it’s a billion-dollar giveaway to the timber industry.
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More Than Just Parks @morethanjustparks.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Ever gazed out over the Grand Canyon & thought, “You know what would really tie this landscape together? A massive uranium strip mine.”? Ever wandered through the redwoods & wondered why they didn’t just clear-cut 'em all back in the day? Great news—stealing public land has never been easier!
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How to Steal a National Park in 5 Easy Steps
A guide for aspiring land-grabbers, based on real tactics used to strip protections from public lands.
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More Than Just Parks @morethanjustparks.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
We’re excited to be on Bluesky! Public lands face mounting threats: exploitation, overcrowding, underfunding, privatization, climate change, and policies that prioritize profit over preservation. These places belong to all of us. We’re here to showcase their magic while advocating for their future.
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