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Bad news for our forests. The comment period will end Sept 21 but they haven't yet posted instructions on how to comment

There have been two attacks on the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. People are pushing back!

You can go back to school without harming the planet and spending a ton of money on school supplies and fall fashion. This is a tip guide for high school and college students interested in sustainability -- good for older girl scouts!

I am planning a trip for my husband and me to visit Costa Rica for 2 weeks in Feb. We're mostly doing Cloud Forest and beach. Cartago looked neat -- like there are 1-2 days worth of stuff. But I can't find any tours that leave from there, they all seem to leave from San Jose. Has anyone stayed in Cartago and done any local tours? How did that work?

August 12: Explore Books hosts author Heather Hansman in conversation with Jody Cardamone, for a discussion of Heather’s latest book, Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Women Who Ignited America’s Love for the Wild.

Heather Hansman is an award-winning freelance writer and celebrated author of Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow. She’s Outside Magazine’s environmental columnist and a contributing editor at Backcountry Magazine.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is opening a 14-day public comment period for the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for Proposed Revocation of Public Land Order No. 7923.

In plain English, this means that they are proposing to revoke protection from 338,690 acres of public land adjacent to the national park. This would open the landscape to up to 14 new oil and gas wells. This development could bring light pollution and air pollution and fragment habitat, threatening irreplaceable cultural artifacts, wildlife, and the park's famous dark skies.

You can submit detailed comments on the BLM planning page:

1. Go to https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=D949F582-402D-F111-8341-001DD804183B
2. Select “Participate Now” and enter your written comment in English.
3. Attach documents if needed (maps, photos, citations).
4. Click Submit. You’ll receive a confirmation.

Comments are due July 29, 2026 at midnight Mountain daylight time

Comment period open on plan to drill near Chaco Canyon

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is opening a 14-day public comment period for the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for Proposed Revocation of Public Land Order No. 7923.

In plain English, this means that they are proposing to revoke protection from 338,690 acres of public land adjacent to the national park. This would open the landscape to up to 14 new oil and gas wells. This development could bring light pollution and air pollution and fragment habitat, threatening irreplaceable cultural artifacts, wildlife, and the park's famous dark skies.

You can submit detailed comments on the BLM planning page:

1. Go to https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/?id=D949F582-402D-F111-8341-001DD804183B
2. Select “Participate Now” and enter your written comment in English.
3. Attach documents if needed (maps, photos, citations).
4. Click Submit. You’ll receive a confirmation.

Comments are due July 29, 2026 at midnight Mountain daylight time

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is opening a 14-day public comment period for the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for Proposed Revocation of Public Land Order No. 7923.

In plain English, this means that they are proposing to revoke protection from 338,690 acres of public land adjacent to the national park. This would open the landscape to up to 14 new oil and gas wells. This development could bring light pollution and air pollution and fragment habitat, threatening irreplaceable cultural artifacts, wildlife, and the park's famous dark skies.

You can submit detailed comments on the BLM planning page:

1. Go to https://eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home/...

2. Select “Participate Now” and enter your written comment in English.

3. Attach documents if needed (maps, photos, citations).

4. Click Submit. You’ll receive a confirmation.

Comments are due July 29, 2026 at midnight Mountain daylight time

One of the most important roles of the LWCF is to provide funding for local projects. Cities and counties have relatively small budgets and competing priorities often mean that funding for nature on the local level takes a backseat. Guaranteed annual funding from the federal government means that states can fund these local projects year after year into the future.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has moved to rescind protection for nearly 45 million acres of roadless areas, justifying the move in part as being necessary to “reduce wildfire risk and help protect surrounding communities and infrastructure,” despite the existing rule’s exception that allows for the removal of small diameter trees in roadless areas.

Rescinding roadless area protections is not the answer. Roadless areas do not burn at significantly higher rates than other areas of national forests. Since wildfires in national forests are more likely to start in proximity to roads than in roadless areas, building more roads could increase human-caused wildfire ignitions. And, as this story map shows, roadless areas have accounted for only 1% of all significant wildfires in the lower 48 states since 2010.