Is it the people who light them, or the systems that create severe fire conditions? wessiler.substack.com/p/whos-respo...
Who’s Responsible For Wildfire?
It’s time to stop thinking of wildfire only in terms of ignition source
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Your guide to leading a more exciting life outdoors.
The trouble with setting out to perform journalism, is that if you don’t do it right, there’s no point in doing it at all. — @wessiler.bsky.social
How Not To Interview A Politician
Outside’s interview with BLM Director Steve Pearce is really bad
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Wildfire smoke is REALLY BAD FOR YOU. The most effective solution is also cheap, and so easy to make anyone can do it: wessiler.substack.com/p/the-cheape...
The Cheapest Wildfire Smoke Air Filter Is Also The Most Effective
It's called a Corsi-Rosenthal Box, and you can make one yourself using supplies you probably already own.
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Trump is re-shrinking Bears Ears and Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monuments. The move is designed to tee up a Supreme Court Case, and allow John Roberts to eliminate the Antiquities Act: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
The Fight Over National Monuments Won’t Stop With Bears Ears
Trump plans to re-shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. I fear it won't stop there.
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The Administration is failing to comply with a court order to restore censored history and science in national parks. And park rangers are PISSED: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
An Open Letter To Doug Burgum From Resistance Rangers
"You say this is too hard to fix, but how about you let us try?"
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And it's already killed at least two national park visitors: wessiler.substack.com/p/interior-o...
Interior Orders Politicization Of Death, Injury Reporting In National Parks, Public Lands
Here’s leaked communications guidance DOI issued to all employees
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Love this true description--"Doug Burgum, part-time tech billionaire/part-time Secretary of the Interior, full-time cookie lover" Should say something about his hostility to nature and love of fossil fuels.
My theory? Department of the Interior is so embarrassed by the Reflecting Pool debacle that they're desperate to avoid any further scandal ahead of the big July 4 celebrations. wessiler.substack.com/p/national-p...
National Park Visitors Are Dying, And DOI Is Covering It Up
With the workforce in national parks down at least 15 percent, something had to give, and the administration doesn’t want you to know about it
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Mike Lee isn't going to succeed with his "trojan horse" amendment, but the Roadless Rule is about to be repealed anyways. Here's why that's actually a huge opportunity for a new era in Wilderness protections: wessiler.substack.com/p/the-roadle...
The Roadless Rule, Recommended Wilderness, And Budget Reconciliation
Or, what in the name of Heavenly Father does Mike Lee think he’s doing? And how we stop him for good.
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PSA#2: Always-insightful @wessiler.bsky.social on why bear spray is not effective and how to actually avoid a bear attack: wessiler.substack.com/p/bear-spray...? #bears 🌎
Bear Spray Is A Placebo
A hiker in Glacier National Park was just killed by disinformation. Here’s how to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen to you.
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What feuding billionaires and 6,000 years old dinosaurs have to do with livestock permits on public land in Montana. And why that might help us overturn Citizens United. wessiler.substack.com/p/what-the-n...
What The New York Times Gets Wrong About Montana’s Bison
There’s more to the story, and it’s a desperately stupid tale about dinosaurs, tariffs, fake cowboys, and feudin’ billionaires
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RIP America's Most Popular Wildernesshttps://open.substack.com/pub/wessiler/p/republicans-vote-to-destroy-boundary?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=36iot
AltNPS has been focused on the threat to the US Forest Service this week, and even launched a website in an effort to pressure brands to speak out. And that's great! There's just one problem. They plagiarized the whole thing.
They just keep topping themselves with new evil‼️ Article by @wessiler.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
Doug Burgum Plans To Kill National Park Visitors This Summer
National Parks are being set up to fail-by-design, in order to justify their sale
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BREAKING: The Trump administration is removing Toni Morrison's "A Bench by the Road" project from South Carolina. The installation is based on the novel "Beloved" and serves as "historical markers that help remember the lives of Africans who were enslaved." wessiler.substack.com/p/heres-ever...
The administration is removing thousands of displays from national parks, covering everything from slavery to climate science. wessiler.substack.com/p/heres-ever...
Here's Every Instance Of Thoughtcrime Being Removed From National Parks
Huge database of material covers everything from founding fathers to slavery to climate science
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Why are Trump and congressional Republicans destroying Boundary Waters—America’s most popular Wilderness area—with a copper mine that will leach sulfuric acid into its pristine waters? @wessiler.bsky.social follows the money: wessiler.substack.com/p/who-wins-i.... 🌎
Who Wins If Republicans Destroy The Boundary Waters? China
Why destroy America’s most popular Wilderness? Foreign profits, obviously.
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substack.com/@wessiler/no... a very interesting conversation about shared values and human rights
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Feeling depressed about the state of our country? It might come from an unexpected source, but here’s the pickmeup you need.
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Look what just dropped in my inbox. More common sense from those of us who understand what's going on. @wessiler.bsky.social
We're about to lose the most popular Wilderness in the country to sulfuric acid pollution because two hunting bros won't hold their buddy accountable for his lies and corruption: wessiler.substack.com/p/boundary-w...
Boundary Waters Mine Vote Highlights Ryan Zinke’s Hypocrisy On Public Lands
Montana Congressperson whipping votes in support of toxic mine that threatens nation’s most popular Wilderness
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2026 is going to be a hard year for public lands. The staff cuts from last year are starting to add up, even as Republican lawmakers prepare new threats. And the lawless administration looms over everything. open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
Where Public Lands Stand As We Enter 2026
A mass sell off? More lay offs? Privatized national parks? This isn’t about predicting the future, it’s the facts about where the war on America’s public lands stands right now.
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Worth mentioning that this political moment already resulted in an unprecedented cancellation of a proposed Refuge expansion that had been developed over a few admins www.texasmonthly.com/travel/texas...
Texas Was Set to Create Its Largest Wildlife Refuge. Then the Feds Did What They’d Seemingly Never Done Before.
One of Texas’s most under the radar and remote parks was set for a massive expansion. In an unprecedented move, the federal government called it all off.
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Wes Siler@wessiler.bsky.social · 7mo agoOver the holidays, the administration quietly initiated a review of all Wildlife Refuges, something that could preface yet another attempt to steal your land: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
Over the holidays, the administration quietly initiated a review of all Wildlife Refuges, something that could preface yet another attempt to steal your land: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...
They’re Coming For Your Wildlife Refuges
The Fish and Wildlife Service’s over-holiday review, and what it means for 850 million acres of public land and water
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This is step 5 on the Republican's 7 step plan to destroy National Parks: wessiler.substack.com/p/new-mike-l...
New Mike Lee Amendment Could ‘End The National Park Service’
Utah Senator at it again with new budget amendment
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Republicans in western states are pinning their hopes for reelection on worsened wildfires, ruined tourism, and defunded communities: wessiler.substack.com/p/trump-admi...
Trump Administration’s Public Lands Leadership Begins To Crumble
How an absent interior secretary, incompetence at the Forest Service, and proposed corruption for the BLM are colliding with low gas prices to throw public land management into chaos
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Some random guy on Substack should never be in a position to challenge essentially every fact presented on a 60 Minutes segment, and yet here we are... wessiler.substack.com/p/fact-check...
Fact Checking The 60 Minutes Public Lands Episode
Can TV journalism survive a rightwing takeover?
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Department of Everything is Related to Everything Else: @wessiler.bsky.social has some interesting thoughts about how some dumb Trump policies (like tariffs and cheap oil) may mitigate the damage from other dumb Trump policies (trying to gut the Clean Water & Endangered Species Acts).
Wes Siler@wessiler.bsky.social · 8mo agoOr: How the invasion of Venezuela will save America's wetlands. wessiler.substack.com/p/what-moham...
Or: How the invasion of Venezuela will save America's wetlands. wessiler.substack.com/p/what-moham...
What Mohammed Bin Salman’s White House Visit Means For The Endangered Species Act
Unintended consequences of completely predictable outcomes created by gross incompetence
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Congress invoking CRA to declare public lands management plans "rules" it must approve happened due to Republican incompetence, and has far reaching implications that might render most current and future commercial operations on BLM and USFS land illegal. wessiler.substack.com/p/congress-b...
Congress Broke Public Lands. It’s About To Create Legal Chaos
Over 5,000 oil and gas leases across 4 million acres of BLM land are about to be challenged in court
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