Timeline Stories

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, a media outlet out of San Francisco, California, report’s that according to National parks employees SFGATE has been blacklisted by the Interior Department due to coverage of national parks. March 23 … Read more

January 23 – A new bill, H.R.655, is introduced in the House by Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-OR2). This bill would transfer 150 acres of federal land to the City of The Dalles, allowing them to raise their dam and expand their reservoir  — diverting water to be used to cool Google’s data centers, which already … 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

May 2 – Trump releases the proposed 2026 Fiscal Year “Skinny Budget.” May 20 – Trump’s budget reconciliation bill, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” is introduced.

April 4 – Forest Services moves to implement Trump’s big timber Executive Order. April 10 – The so-called “Fix” Our Forest Act (S.B. 1462) is introduced in the Senate. April 11 – Presidential memorandum aggressively slashes agency regulations. The administration proposes rescinding the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act.  

August 27 – Federal border control agents arrest two Oregon residents working on an active fire in Washington.

March 1 – The Trump admin issues “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production” Executive Order 14225. March 12 – The Environmental Protection Agency announces the largest deregulation effort in U.S. history. March 27 – Department of Interior Re-Writes History.