Timeline Stories

July 1 – The Forest Service proposes to amend rules to prohibit public notice and comment on changes to the directives that guide management and control of all agency programs including logging, grazing, and permitting across national public forestlands.

June 11 – The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources votes 11-9 to advance S.140, the Wildfire Prevention Act, including an amendment proposed by Senator Mike Lee (UT) the night before that would nullify the 2001 Roadless Rule. June 12 – A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs related … Read more

April 3 – Trump’s 2027 budget proposal would gut key conservation programs, cut BLM staffing, eliminate US Forest Service research, and reduce funding for national parks, wildlife refuges, and USFWS state & tribal grants. April 16 – The Senate votes to overturn protections from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, ending a 20-year mining ban. … Read more

May 12 – The Bureau of Land Management formally rescinds the 2024 landmark “Public Lands Rule.” May 18 – Senate confirms Steve Pearce as director of the Bureau of Land Management.

February 5 – The Forest Service announced “proposed revisions to the regulations governing the predecisional administrative review.” The proposed rule would hinder and obstruct public participation by reducing the duration of public comment windows by over 50%. February 12 – Trumps EPA eliminates the landmark scientific 2009 ‘endangerment finding’ which determined greenhouse gases responsible for … Read more

March 11 – Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum call’s Americans who want to keep public lands in public hands, “financially literate.” March 18 – SFGATE, reports that according to National Park Service employees, they have been blacklisted by the Interior Department due to coverage of national parks. March 23 – At Wind Cave National … Read more

January 23 – A new bill, H.R.655, would transfer 150 acres of federal land to the City of The Dalles, allowing them to raise their dam and divert water to be used to cool Google’s data centers. January 27 – In the latest push by the Trump administration to erase history and science, The Washington … Read more

December 6 – The Trump Administration cancels free admission to National Parks on MLK Day and Juneteenth, while adding President Trump’s birthday. December 9 – It was revealed that between late October and early December, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deleted all references to climate change and its causes from the agency’s webpages. Other agencies … Read more

November 19 – The Trump Administration proposes four regulatory changes aimed at gutting implementation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

October 1 – The federal government shuts down.

September 10 – Department of Interior proposes to scrap the Bureau of Land Management’s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule September 22 – Forest Service receives over 600,000 comments opposing the Trump administration’s plans to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule September 29 – The Department of Interior announces a plan to open 13.1 million acres … Read more

June 12 – The Department of Interior continues erasing history June 23 – The Department of Agriculture announces its intention to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule