Trump rollback of US forest protections
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Trump signs order removing endangered species protection for grey wolves
Claire Musser, executive director of the Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project, said weakening federal protections would put decades of recovery work at risk.
Greta Anderson, deputy director of Western Watersheds Project, said the order is a huge distraction to placate a handful of ranchers.
The executive order said ranchers played a "vital role" in the food supply chain and American cultural heritage.
Trump order directs officials to consider stripping protections for gray wolves
Michael Robinson, an advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, said premature de-listing would likely invite challenge from environmental groups.
US agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins said at the signing ceremony that interior secretary Burgum has to do a little magic but yes.
Gray wolves are protected under the Endangered Species Act across most of their range in the lower 48, making it a federal crime to kill one in most cases.
Opinion: Trump's plan to sell part of Yosemite
The Trump administration reduced Bears Ears and Escalante in Utah by 90%.
The Trump administration is opening up the ancient sacred site of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico to fracking.
Yellowstone National Park is usually recognized as the first national park.
Trump administration weighs Yosemite land swap for private developer 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.
The Sierra Club called the land swap plan a "corrupt back-room deal".
An Interior Department spokesperson said that no final decision has been made regarding the land swap.
Trump administration pushing to hand Yosemite land parcel to private developer
National Park Service staff have been exploring how to give a quarter-mile parcel to a company operated by Kingsbarn Realty Capital.
Jayson O'Neill, spokesperson for Save Our Parks, described the report as part of a push by US interior secretary Doug Burgum to sell off public lands and privatize America's national parks.
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,”
Trump rollback of US forest protections could accelerate extinction of 400 endangered species
Randi Spivak, public lands policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity, criticized the decision, saying bulldozing more roads through national forests will mean dirtier water, fragmented wildlife habitat and greater wildfire risk.
The Trump administration cited outdated restrictions as justification for rescinding the roadless rule.
In the US south and south-east, 1.1 million acres of roadless areas and 1,300 miles of streams are at risk.