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Public Domain Sues Trump Administration For Boundary Waters, ESA Records
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 • Public Domain
EXCLUSIVE: Ranch Manager Tied to Top Trump Appointee Started 5,600-Acre Idaho Wildfire
A state investigation shines light on the unpermitted fire, which cost nearly $950,000 to contain.
 • Jimmy Tobias and Chris D'Angelo
Meet The Young Political Appointee Boosting Trump’s ‘Vanity Projects’
A former mining executive is playing a key role in the president’s campaign to build monuments and stage spectacles in the Capitol. His financial…
 • Jimmy Tobias and Chris D'Angelo
Judge Blocks Trump Admin Effort to Evict Hundreds of Bison From Public Land
The temporary restraining order marked a major victory for American Prairie, which has spent more than 20 years restoring buffalo in Montana.
 • Jimmy Tobias and Roque Planas
Montana GOP Doubles Down On Public Land Transfer In New Party Platform
The document also appears to leave the door open to selling federal lands that are not national parks or wilderness areas.
 • Chris D'Angelo

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 • Adam Federman
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The president’s border wall plan could damage or destroy ‘the oldest-known books in North America’
 • Roque Planas
Public Domain Again Sues Trump Administration
The lawsuit seeks public records related to scandal-plagued Interior Department official Karen Budd-Falen
 • Public Domain
Trump Administration Halts Border Work In Big Bend National Park As Outrage Grows
The commissioner of Customs and Border Protection Commissioner will visit the beloved Texas park to conduct an evaluation and meet with stakeholders.
 • Roque Planas and Chris D'Angelo
Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park As Trump’s Border Work Surges Ahead
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 • Roque Planas
Trump Admin Installs Project 2025 Author At Interior Department’s Watchdog Office
Dennis Kirk, a former associate director at the right-wing Heritage Foundation, comes to DOI after a controversial tenure at the Office of the Director…
 • Chris D'Angelo
Records Show Trump Interior Secretary Met With Former North Dakota Colleagues
The Interior Department said the meetings, which appear on Doug Burgum's official calendar, were “personal” gatherings “with old friends,” not business.
 • Chris D'Angelo
This Dark Money Political Operative Could Soon Become Trump’s Ethics Chief
Michael Chamberlain sought to block an ethics inquiry into a conflicted Interior Department official and pushed to roll back endangered species…
 • Chris D'Angelo and Jimmy Tobias
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