Doug Burgum has turned our public lands into a piggy bank for Trump’s ego projects. Every dollar diverted to a no-bid contractor with ties to Mar-a-Lago is a dollar not spent maintaining trails, protecting wildlife, or keeping park rangers on the job. https://bit.ly/4vOFrIG
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Doug Burgum is the quiet enabler behind Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar makeover of D.C., signing off on the grants and decisions that have let a network of donor-funded, no-bid contracts run roughshod over America’s most treasured public spaces. https://bit.ly/4wgQsU9
A wealth manager and a telecom executive have no business managing our national parks. Every Senator who voted to advance them owns every acre of public land Doug Burgum sells off and every species his cronies fail to protect. https://bit.ly/4bb9ove
“This backroom deal to sell out America’s public lands for a data center reeks and proves Selloff Steve Pearce hasn’t changed. This was the entirely predictable outcome of putting a conflicted real estate investor in charge of America’s public lands.” bit.ly/4wVLhZO
“Selloff Steve” Pearce used an “extraordinary and liberal interpretation of existing law and regulations” to approve a data center on public land in Nevada, skipping environmental reviews and shutting residents and the public out of the process entirely. https://bit.ly/45rRLUp
A week after Trump and Doug Burgum stood in Medora, ND praising Theodore Roosevelt's conservation legacy, they helped gut 3 million acres of protected public land in Utah. Actions speak louder than photo ops. https://bit.ly/4ypWfbs
Not content with shrinking Bears Ears by 90%, Burgum's Interior Department also terminated the Bears Ears Commission, the groundbreaking body that gave Tribal nations a real voice in managing their ancestral lands. This is erasure, plain and simple. https://bit.ly/4aXg6Vv
Trump just signed off on the largest wholesale rollback of public land protections in American history. 3 million acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante stripped of protection overnight, nearly double the scope of the 2017 rollback. https://bit.ly/3QTSXN3
Trump gutting Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante is just the latest chapter in Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s documented campaign to sabotage America’s national parks and public lands, clearing the way for sell-offs to extractive industries and developers. bit.ly/4yrgVjx
Last week, Donald Trump signed executive orders illegally shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, which together cover over 5,000 square miles of Utah red rock, ancestral Tribal lands, and irreplaceable cultural sites. https://bit.ly/4pqsxiH
House and Senate committees, along with the Public Lands and Stewardship caucuses, have had months to hold Doug Burgum and the administration accountable for raiding National Park entrance fees and gutting staff. But they’re looking the other way. bit.ly/4wHCISt
The America the Beautiful Act is worth passing, but it won’t reverse the staffing losses, restore the diverted fee revenue, or resolve the ongoing legal fight over historical exhibits Burgum and the administration are trying to censor and erase. https://bit.ly/4yhhBrt
Lies, lies, and more lies by Trump and his minions in a desperate attempt to justify the illegal gutting of a historic amount of park protections. www.publicdomain.media/p/trump-nati...
As the country celebrates National Parks & Recreation Month, new on-the-ground reporting from Yosemite found traffic jams, overflowing parking lots, and long lines for bathrooms and buses, all while the NPS has lost close to 25% of its permanent staff. https://bit.ly/4vZCENS
Another sweetheart deal for this admin’s pals and narrow interests. A lot more to cover on how this came to be and the revolving-door former Trump Interior Secretary behind this shady backroom deal. https://lat.ms/4bBOpSh
Freedom 250 was stood up after America250 refused to bend to the Trump administration’s demands. Donors who believed they were giving to America250 were instead handed Freedom 250’s banking information, a bait-and-switch that may amount to wire fraud. https://n.pr/4vkj3XD
Bears Ears and Grand Staircase belong to Utahns and all Americans, not to wannabe kings and their minions. Congress must step in and stop this illegal effort. https://bit.ly/3QTSXN3
Meet Burgum’s acting head of parks, fish, & wildlife Kevin Lilly, a wealthy fund manager w/ zero qualifications. Ask your senator why they would even consider this unqualified nominee. https://bit.ly/3Tdd0Xg
A 55-page report from Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee documents how Doug Burgum’s Interior Department helped the White House hijack America’s 250th birthday and turn it into “a hotbed of corruption and self-enrichment.” https://bit.ly/4eUwDfj
Doug Burgum couldn’t even get basic American history right while hyping Trump’s partisan, pay-to-play Freedom 250 fair. Burgum thinks he knows better than Teddy Roosevelt how to manage our parks, but doesn’t even know when Roosevelt was president. bit.ly/4v8dQSm