Trump rollback of US forest protections
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Trump signs order removing endangered species protection for grey wolves
There were 319 Mexican wolves in the wild in the US in 2025, up from four when they were reintroduced in 1998.
Donald Trump signed an executive order to remove endangered species protection for the grey wolf and the Mexican wolf.
Greta Anderson, deputy director of Western Watersheds Project, said the order is a huge distraction to placate a handful of ranchers.
Trump order directs officials to consider stripping protections for gray wolves
US agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins said at the signing ceremony that interior secretary Burgum has to do a little magic but yes.
Trump asked at the signing ceremony whether people could shoot Mexican gray wolves as of that day.
In Minnesota, wolves are classified as threatened rather than endangered.
Opinion: Trump's plan to sell part of Yosemite
Yellowstone National Park is usually recognized as the first national park.
The Trump administration is opening up the ancient sacred site of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico to fracking.
The Trump administration has funneled Park Service money to projects at the White House and in Washington DC.
Trump administration weighs Yosemite land swap for private developer access road
The Sierra Club called the land swap plan a "corrupt back-room deal".
The Trump administration is considering a land swap that could exchange a small piece of Yosemite National Park to a private developer seeking a new access road.
Jeff Pori, the CEO of Kingsbarn, made regular, mostly small-dollar donations to President Donald Trump's campaign committee between 2024 and 2025.
Trump rollback of US forest protections could accelerate extinction of 400 endangered species
In the US south and south-east, 1.1 million acres of roadless areas and 1,300 miles of streams are at risk.
More than 400 endangered animal and plant species could face accelerated extinction due to the rescission of the roadless rule.
A report from the Center for Biological Diversity found that the rollback could put 7.4 million acres of endangered-species habitat and nearly 1,800 miles of protected rivers and streams at risk.
Trump administration pushing to hand Yosemite land parcel to private developer
The interior department stated that no final decisions had been reached and that any land exchange would be subject to applicable federal laws and required environmental review and public notification processes.
National Park Service staff have been exploring how to give a quarter-mile parcel to a company operated by Kingsbarn Realty Capital.
The Trump administration is reportedly pushing to give a parcel of land inside Yosemite to a Nevada-based private developer.
“If mismanaging parks and stealing entrance fees for Trump’s DC vanity projects wasn’t enough, now Americans 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, all while lying to us about protecting them,”