Wes Siler

Sure looks like the interior secretary is turning Yellowstone into his own Ballroom-like bribery scheme: wessiler.substack.com/p/whats-behi...

Exclusive: As further reductions are planned, internal leak reveals exact staffing levels from before Trump and now. wessiler.substack.com/p/how-many-s...

nasa employee: oh hey you guys are back early. shark force astronaut: moon's got sharks nasa employee: what? shark force astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket ship* moon's got sharks

Trump has ordered creation of a SHARK FORCE to kill sharks and seals to benefit the success rates of recreational fishing. It's part of a raft of insane measures intended to convince hunters and anglers to vote Republican: wessiler.substack.com/p/a-cynical-...

Sure looks like the Secretary of the Interior is about to invoke emergency wartime powers to use taxpayer funds to build a bunch of data centers on public land, without any public input: wessiler.substack.com/p/whats-doug...

Here's Trump's plan to politicize national parks: wessiler.substack.com/p/leaked-doc...

Save our public lands, they are ours not theirs‼️ From @wessiler.bsky.social wessiler.substack.com/p/on-public-...

This is really happening: Trump administration plan to force sale of national parks has leaked. wessiler.substack.com/p/frustrated...

Really great work here by @wessiler.bsky.social. I thank independent journalists for turning over rocks. Trump’s shit is rolling down, affecting strongholds, and I am here for it. I don’t know that Talarico can win, but I like that he’s on the attack. Paxton is straight scum.

This represents as close to a total victory for the park and the state as can reasonably be messaged as something other than a total surrender by the Trump administration. wessiler.substack.com/p/to-save-ke...

Wes Siler is an independent journalist who has spent the last 24 years writing about the intersection of public lands, conservation, and politics. He tells the story of the brief battle that forced Native American displacement from most of modern-day Ohio. #WeAreAmerica250

The PAC plans to target 20 vulnerable incumbents in swing districts who have voted to destroy the National Park Service: wessiler.substack.com/p/finally-a-...

Tim Walz saves America's most popular Wilderness: wessiler.substack.com/p/tim-walz-b...

People have been speculating about what form the border “wall” will take in Big Bend National Park since February. For the first time anywhere, here’s actual details: wessiler.substack.com/p/big-bend-n...

The company most likely to benefit from the reduction to Bears Ears National Monument is also the company dumping radioactive waste into Indigenous communities there is also the company whose executives likely traded on foreknowledge of Trump’s order: wessiler.substack.com/p/national-m...

Is it the people who light them, or the systems that create severe fire conditions? wessiler.substack.com/p/whos-respo...

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...

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 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...

And it's already killed at least two national park visitors: wessiler.substack.com/p/interior-o...

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...

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...

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 🌎

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...

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...

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...

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.... 🌎

substack.com/@wessiler/no... a very interesting conversation about shared values and human rights

We can beat them. wessiler.substack.com/p/the-plan-f...

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...

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...

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...

This is step 5 on the Republican's 7 step plan to destroy National Parks: wessiler.substack.com/p/new-mike-l...

Republicans in western states are pinning their hopes for reelection on worsened wildfires, ruined tourism, and defunded communities: wessiler.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

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...

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).

Or: How the invasion of Venezuela will save America's wetlands. wessiler.substack.com/p/what-moham...

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...

In a rare instance of genuinely good news, there's a promising new plan to render Citizens United moot. Here's why you shouldn't be surprised it comes from Montana: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

Short term damage during the shutdown doesn't look that bad, but the result accelerates the timeline for Trump's plan to sell off national parks: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

The Fix Our Forests Act is being billed as a bipartisan solution to our wildfire crisis. I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but it'll only make fires worse. Here's why: wessiler.substack.com/p/why-the-fi...