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Defending America’s national parks from Trump’s attacks. Fighting privatization, cuts, and corruption to protect our public lands. #SaveOurParks

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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 20h
Doug Burgum’s Fish and Wildlife Service just told staff that loggers and developers can kill endangered species on the job, as long as the animals weren’t the target. Whales, bats, entire populations: fair game under Burgum’s watch. bit.ly/4yXv5Z1
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Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species • Stateline
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public. Individuals and industries may kill endangered animals and ...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 01/10/2026
Trump just handed Doug Burgum Defense Production Act powers over energy, a backdoor to fast-track drilling, mining, and data centers on 500M+ acres of public lands with almost no public input. bit.ly/4hd3g9d
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Trump hands Burgum a new way to bypass public lands protections - Center for Western Priorities
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order making changes to how presidential authority under the Defense Production Act (DPA) is delegated. Previously, the president delegated a variety of authorities under the DPA to the S...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 30/09/2026
The fiscal year ends today, and most of the ~1,500 park repairs Doug Burgum’s Interior dumped on a “low priority” list may go unfunded. Drinking water for Big Bend visitors: shelved. Gold leaf for D.C. statues: done. nyti.ms/4jmdqph
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 29/09/2026
153 lawmakers from both parties are demanding Doug Burgum drop his scheme to hand a strip of Yosemite to a developer whose CEO donates to Trump. Burgum’s Interior even asked to use conservation fund money to grease the deal. Yosemite belongs to all of us. bit.ly/4AEsBRc
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Padilla, Schiff, Costa, Huffman Lead Bipartisan Congressional Push to Stop Proposed Yosemite Land Transfer to Trump Donor - Senator Alex Pad...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-Calif.), members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, along with U.S. Representatives Jim Costa (D-Calif.-21) and Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-02), Ranking Me...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 28/09/2026
Doug Burgum’s Bears Ears cuts took effect Sept. 11. Within a week, at least 13 new mining claims were filed on land that had been protected days earlier. Burgum carved up a sacred landscape and handed it to industry. bit.ly/4yiOCn1
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How the Interior secretary has let down public lands and the nation - High Country News
Doug Burgum was once seen as a conservationist. Reality shows otherwise.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 25/09/2026
Selling off some 17,600 acres of our public lands to tech titans for speculative data center development is just about the worst thing we have seen from embattled Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to date. bit.ly/3V2vdb5
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Trump Is Considering More Data Centers on Public Lands Than Previously Known
The data center proposals cover at least 17,600 acres of public lands across six Western states.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 25/09/2026
Doug Burgum's own contractor now admits its shoddy work caused the Reflecting Pool to peel and crack, directly contradicting Burgum and Trump's months-long blame campaign against innocent Americans. Own your $15 million mess, Doug. bit.ly/4xwTROs
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Reflecting Pool Contractor Admits 'Human Oversight'-Not Vandals-Led To Peeling, Report Says
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro found after an investigation last month the pool's renovation "indicated a rushed and flawed installation process."
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 24/09/2026
157 members of Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike, are demanding Doug Burgum reject a scheme to hand a piece of Yosemite National Park to a private equity developer. He should listen to them. bit.ly/4hms5yq
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Costa Joins Bipartisan Congressional Coalition Opposing Yosemite Land Swap
Congressional leaders including Jim Costa, D-Fresno, oppose a land deal that would allow private development in Yosemite National Park.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 23/09/2026
A private equity exec whose firm’s staff gave over $100,000 to Doug Burgum’s presidential campaign scored a private meeting with him last summer, right as his agencies started opening public lands to data center developers. At Burgum’s Interior, everything is for sale. bit.ly/3URiRTd
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 22/09/2026
Data Center Doug Burgum took a dozen unexplained meetings with the biggest data center investors in the country, all while he personally holds millions in AI-linked investments. We can’t let him offer up America’s parks and public lands on a silver platter. bit.ly/46wpcpK
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REPORT: Data Center Doug Burgum’s Yearlong String of Meetings With Data Center Investors, Just as His Agencies Start Handing Over Public Lands for Development — Save Our Parks
Save Our Parks Report Documents Burgum’s Interior Department Prioritizing Data Centers on Public Lands and a Dozen Previously Unreported Meetings Between Secretary Burgum and the Billionaires Bankroll...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 21/09/2026
Doug Burgum’s Interior Department is blocking $25M+ in already-funded national park projects, from wildfire prep to sled dog care, while a right-wing operative runs Interior’s grants office. Our parks are failing by design under Burgum. wapo.st/4xx8Wzw
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 21/09/2026
At least 12 new data centers and data center related infrastructure are being considered on public lands covering some 17,600 acres in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming by Data Center Doug Burgum. bit.ly/3V2vdb5
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Trump Is Considering More Data Centers on Public Lands Than Previously Known
The data center proposals cover at least 17,600 acres of public lands across six Western states.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 18/09/2026
Data Center Doug Burgum is a big tech guy at the end of the day. He doesn’t understand or value our public lands and parks. First, Bears Ears and GSE, then Yosemite. Now this! bit.ly/4iY4Uwy
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Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 18/09/2026
🚨 Breaking: New report documents how Data Center Doug Burgum spent the majority of his first year secretly meeting with the billionaire developers and investors behind speculative data center buildout. Now, Burgum's offering up our public lands to them. www.saveourparks.us/news-index/r...
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REPORT: Data Center Doug Burgum’s Yearlong String of Meetings With Data Center Investors, Just as His Agencies Start Handing Over Public Lands for Development — Save Our Parks
Save Our Parks Report Documents Burgum’s Interior Department Prioritizing Data Centers on Public Lands and a Dozen Previously Unreported Meetings Between Secretary Burgum and the Billionaires Bankroll...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 18/09/2026
America marked its 250th birthday this year while Doug Burgum left national parks understaffed, underfunded, and shortchanged on the fee revenue he promised them. Congress should make him answer for every dollar he’s stolen. bit.ly/4h3dojC
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Trump's 'America First' national park fees for foreign tourists have raised a quarter of what was promised | Fortune
The Department of Interior says foreign-tourist fees raised $22.5 million this year, a quarter of what it was supposed to bring in.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 17/09/2026
What are we doing here, Doug Burgum? bit.ly/46f0E4p
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MAGA Official Makes Bonkers Claim: 'President Trump Has Basically... Saved The World'
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum delivered a highly awkward dodge when asked about high gas prices.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 17/09/2026
The National Park Service still has no director under Doug Burgum. But Burgum does have plenty of time to push a land giveaway at Yosemite for a private developer. He’s letting our public lands rot while corporations cash in. bit.ly/4xikUNq
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Yosemite, again in corporate crosshairs, embodies the long war over US national park privatization
Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 16/09/2026
Data Center Doug Burgum asked Bureau of Land Management state directors to identify public land ripe for data center development. bit.ly/4iY4Uwy
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Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 16/09/2026
Doug Burgum has already slashed National Park Service staffing by over a quarter. Now Interior is quietly drafting plans to consolidate NPS offices for science, wildlife monitoring, and culture, with superintendents nationwide being summoned to mandatory meetings. bit.ly/4hnnxJ6
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Trump Is Quietly Planning to Majorly Change How National Parks Are Run
All Interior Department bureaus are considering major shake-ups under an edict from leadership.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 15/09/2026
“Using federal public land for the benefit of some of the richest companies in the history of the world, instead of holding those lands in public trust for public enjoyment, is one of the worst uses of public land I can think of.” Like and repost if you agree. bit.ly/4iY4Uwy
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Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 15/09/2026
Doug Burgum has raided national park fees for Trump’s empty, algae-choked Reflecting Pool, the President’s tacky “Arc de Trump,” and the administration’s Freedom 250 slush fund, all while parks face a $24 billion maintenance backlog. bit.ly/3TuMLfv
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Doug Burgum Raids National Park Fees for Donald Trump’s Political Events and Vanity Projects — Save Our Parks
Internal Documents Reveal $90 Million in Park Fees Diverted By Burgum HELENA, MT – New reporting has revealed that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has diverted at least $90 million in n...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 14/09/2026
Doug Burgum promised his new international entry fee would bring in $90 million a year for America’s parks. It’s raised barely ¼ of that, while Burgum keeps funneling park fees to Trump’s D.C. vanity projects. bit.ly/4h3dojC
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Trump's 'America First' national park fees for foreign tourists have raised a quarter of what was promised | Fortune
The Department of Interior says foreign-tourist fees raised $22.5 million this year, a quarter of what it was supposed to bring in.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 14/09/2026
We’ve been raising alarm bells about Data Center Doug Burgum and anti-Public Lands BLM head Steve Pearce. Now it’s confirmed they're looking to give away America’s public lands to data center developers. bit.ly/4iY4Uwy
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Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 11/09/2026
Trump gutted Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Today, that land legally opens to new mining claims, and companies are already lining up for special treatment from Doug Burgum’s Interior Department. bit.ly/3T9Btx7
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After getting downsized, these Utah national monuments now face mining claims
Half a dozen companies have applied to mine Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments since July. Environmentalists called it a harbinger for further exploitation.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 11/09/2026
BREAKING: Data Center Doug Burgum wants to sacrifice our public lands to develop data centers. bit.ly/4iY4Uwy
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Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 10/09/2026
After weeks of public pressure, the feds are pausing border wall construction in Big Bend National Park again, this time until Sept. 30. But bulldozers already tore through the park under Doug Burgum’s watch. bit.ly/4x5giKk
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CBP extends pause of some border construction, including in Texas national park
The federal government is extending a pause on some construction of President Trump’s signature border wall, as well as additional border construction in a national park in Texas’s Big Bend region,…
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 09/09/2026
The Interior Department's own appeals board couldn’t rubber-stamp this one. An administrative judge on the board just put the first AI data center on public land on hold, ruling BLM may need a real environmental review after all. bit.ly/4Abybdw
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Contested Data Center Project on BLM Land in Nevada Put on Hold
The U.S. Interior Department’s administrative appeals board has dealt a potentially major blow to a proposed data center project on BLM land.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 08/09/2026
Out-of-touch and unpopular Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is ordering corporations to comply with Trump’s petty Lake Ontario order. bit.ly/3Vd9jBP
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Trump has asked Apple to change Lake Ontario name: Burgum
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said that President Trump has asked tech company Apple to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” after an executive order from the president that pushed th…
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 08/09/2026
Trump ordered his golf course megaproject at East Potomac Park to break ground by Sept. 1, and Doug Burgum's Interior Department is already cutting down trees to make it happen, court-ordered site protection plan be damned. bit.ly/3Vcpm2O
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Trees are coming down at East Potomac, advocates say - days before Trump's Sept. 1 construction deadline
Posts on social media show what appear to be trees being cut down on the course in recent days as preservation groups continue fight to halt redevelopment
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 07/09/2026
For a century Yosemite was untouchable, and the federal government made sure it stayed that way. Now Trump officials are quietly moving to hand a piece of the park to a private developer, an unprecedented giveaway on Doug Burgum’s watch. bit.ly/3SxvkKZ
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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! The fruits of our labor are now going to fund Trump’s gaudy 250-foot Triumphal Arch in D.C. Doug Burgum announced construction is starting in a few weeks. Still no word on lowering energy costs from the ‘energy dominance’ chair. cbsn.ws/4gUHGot
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Work on Trump-backed Triumphal Arch will start in coming weeks, Burgum says
The federal government plans to start excavation over the next two weeks on a massive triumphal arch near Washington, D.C., Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said, a controversial project championed by President Trump.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 04/09/2026
Did the Trump administration’s DOGE’ing of wildland firefighters and other firefighting support staff lead to deadly consequences? Mitigation down, leadership gaps, under-resourced, chaotic reorg and consolidation under Tom Schultz and Doug Burgum. bit.ly/46t1zOA
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Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’
Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 04/09/2026
Doug Burgum installed Kevin Lilly through an acting appointment that violated the law, then pushed his permanent confirmation anyway. Burgum is stacking Interior with cronies and using his power to rubberstamp Trump's demands, national parks be damned. bit.ly/3UdaRM1
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PEER Warns Interior’s Illegal Use of “Acting” Officials Puts Department Decisions in Legal Jeopardy
Group Says Second Trump Administration Repeating Same Vacancies Act Violations Struck Down the First Time
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 03/09/2026
Let us know how you feel about Doug Burgum directing your park fees to Trump’s gold horses, Reflecting Pool, and other DC vanity projects as other desperately needed park fixes and maintenance get shelved. bit.ly/4ch7aLr
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National park maintenance work sidelined as Trump’s Freedom 250 takes precedence
The shelved projects, many already approved, span more than 200 sites.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 03/09/2026
Doug Burgum is betting he can outlast Congress. If the House flips, Natural Resources gets subpoena power over Interior, and every shredded document becomes fair game. Time isn't on his side. Full memo on Burgum’s upcoming woes: bit.ly/3UlEWcd
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Burgum’s Escalating Campaign to Dodge Oversight — and What The Midterms Mean For Trump’s Troubled Interior Secretary — Save Our Parks
Memorandum: Burgum’s Escalating Campaign to Dodge Oversight — and What The Midterms Mean For Trump’s Troubled Interior Secretary Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 To: Interested Parties From: S...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 02/09/2026
More favors for special interests by Doug Burgum. Now he wants to let oil & gas drills drill under private land without providing any notice. Farmers and ranchers continue to get the short end of the stick under the Trump administration. bit.ly/3UeN9Pt
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The BLM wants to stop notifying landowners about drilling under private land. Ranchers are alarmed
By Teal Davis / Report for America Joe and Karen Rankin’s ranch, just north of Douglas, Wyoming, has been in the family for 80 years. As Joe Rankin manages the ranch, he keeps track of any oil drilling underneath their land. But due to a controversia...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 02/09/2026
Acting BOEM Director Matthew Giacona is deciding the same offshore energy issues he used to lobby on for an oil and gas trade group. Just another Burgum crony writing policy for his old clients on the taxpayer dime. bit.ly/4xusMwm
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He Lobbied For Offshore Oil Drillers. Now He Runs The Agency That Regulates Them.
As BOEM’s new principal deputy director, former lobbyist Matt Giacona is shaping Gulf of Mexico oil policy and facilitating industry access. Ethics experts sound the alarm.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 01/09/2026
Doug Burgum is fast-tracking oil & gas permits in Alaska without environmental reviews, icing the public out of decisions about our public lands. More rubber-stamps for polluters at everyone else’s expense. bit.ly/4qKeFQP
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SCOOP: Trump Team Moves To Fast-Track Arctic Drilling Without Environmental Review
The Interior Department will soon publish a “categorical exclusion” that will rubber stamp oil and gas development in Alaska’s remote National Petroleum Reserve.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 01/09/2026
Doug Burgum jacked up park fees for international visitors and then trumpeted the recent numbers. The only problem is that it was only 50% of the National Park Service's projected revenue. bit.ly/4wUrzx3
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Trump’s ‘America First’ National Park Fees Miss Revenue Targets
The Trump administration’s fee hike for international visitors in national parks has brought in 50% less revenue than projected.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 01/09/2026
Jenifer Chatfield, one of Burgum’s deputy assistant secretaries, pushed her own family’s captive wildlife business permit through Interior’s process in a single day. Americans who aren’t Burgum’s cronies have to wait months. nyti.ms/4y7PB91
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 31/08/2026
Trump and Doug Burgum gutted Bears Ears National Monument based on false pretenses to benefit extractive corporations. Top executives from a foreign uranium mining company made stock trades only days before the decision was announced that are now under investigation. bit.ly/4qK1NdE
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House Democrats open insider trading investigation into Utah mill owner’s stock purchases
Company denies knowing about Bears Ears National Monument reduction prior to large insider investments
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 31/08/2026
Doug Burgum used a private email account for Interior business early on, and pushed to build a second secure conference room near his own office, despite Interior already having one three floors down. At what cost to taxpayers and what’s he trying to keep off the books? politi.co/4bB9tIM
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Jeanine Pirro berated Doug Burgum. But Interior staffers have been angry at him for months.
The broadsides from D.C.'s top prosecutor against the Interior secretary echoed what agency staffers have said privately.
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 28/08/2026
If mismanaging parks and stealing entrance fees for Trump’s D.C. vanity projects wasn’t enough, now we find out Doug Burgum and his cronies spent a year secretly negotiating to hand a piece of Yosemite National Park over to a well-connected developer. bit.ly/4y87jJs
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Doug Burgum Caught Plotting to Hand Off Piece of Yosemite to Private Developer — Save Our Parks
HELENA, MT – Breaking new reporting reveals the Trump administration’s National Park Service under Doug Burgum has spent more than a year quietly working to carve a strip of Yosemite National Pa...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 28/08/2026
Why is the Trump administration trying to revoke the roadless rule despite overwhelming opposition to it by Americans? Because Senator Lisa Murkowski’s favored logging special interests want to sell old-growth in the Tongass to China. It’s that simple. bit.ly/4zwPJAq
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Cutting Through Disinformation Around The Roadless Rule Rescission
The sky isn’t falling, the Forest Service hasn’t been dismantled, and no one is about to bulldoze 44 million acres of untouched forest
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 28/08/2026
Bulldozers are tearing through Big Bend National Park to build Trump's border wall, with dozens of environmental protections waived to clear the way. Lawmakers, conservation groups, and businesses are speaking out against it. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has said nothing. bit.ly/4bZCQVp
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Border project contractors arrive in Big Bend National Park as Texas lawmakers call for a pause
Texas Democrats are urging the Trump administration to delay its plans for building border barriers and roads across the West Texas park. Bulldozers and trucks bearing the logo of the contractor awarded $1.7 billion for the project were seen in the n...
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 27/08/2026
The Forest Service wants to strip protections from 40+ million acres of national forest and open roadless wilderness to logging & mining. 99% of public comments opposed this same plan last year. They're doing it anyway. Comments are open through Sept. 21. bit.ly/4xP9e5u
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 26/08/2026
Redirecting critical wildfire fighting resources at great cost to a fire that didn’t threaten lives while over 100 other ones raged is what billionaire Forest Service Under Secretary Michael Boren did. Chaos, waste, and mismanagement under Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz. wapo.st/4g07Qai
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 26/08/2026
$400 million rerouted from national park entrance fees to Trump's vanity projects this year. Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Grand Canyon funding got slashed to pay for it. Trump gets to play interior decorator, and American families get bupkis. bit.ly/46h5lug
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Trump Turns National Parks into Piggybank
Cutbacks and Setbacks Hammer America's National Parks in the Shadow of Trump's Vanity Projects
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 25/08/2026
After the Trump administration failed to keep up with mitigation last year, slashed staff, and cut funding, 2026 will be one of the worst wildfire seasons on record. Questions mount for Secretaries Burgum and Rollins and Forest Service Chief Tom Shultz. nyti.ms/46eNnZl
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Save Our Parks @saveourparks.us · 25/08/2026
Interior staff say Doug Burgum's team shreds public documents and uses disappearing messages to dodge federal records law. Now a Project 2025 author is running Interior's watchdog office, and he's ignoring the congressional requests piling up on his desk. bit.ly/4injaP6
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