Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill (the House version, anyway) will have widespread impacts across the National Park System and on America's Public Lands. The bill includes provisions for mining in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as well as a host of provisions aimed to bolster oil and gas production, mining, and logging on public lands. However, the bill was also stripped of two particularly devastating provisions: the forced approval of the Ambler Mining Road through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska, and an debilitating sell-off of 500,000 acres of public land in Nevada and Utah. We break it all down in this video.
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Sources and Resources:
npca.org/articles/8891-house-advances-budget-bill-reducing-national-park-service-staff-amid-peak
nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/05/house-bill-drops-public-lands-sales-seen-harmful-parks-wildlife
westernpriorities.org/2025/05/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-is-still-ugly-for-public-lands
npca.org/articles/9089-6-worst-things-that-happened-to-national-parks-last-month
npca.org/resources/4103-the-reconciliation-bill-that-could-reshape-national-parks-forever
cbo.gov/publication/61415
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Storyblocks
NPCA
Yale University
Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill (the House version, anyway) will have widespread impacts across the National Park System and on America's Public Lands. The bill includes provisions for mining in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as well as a host of provisions aimed to bolster oil and gas production, mining, and logging on public lands. However, the bill was also stripped of two particularly devastating provisions: the forced approval of the Ambler Mining Road through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska, and an debilitating sell-off of 500,000 acres of public land in Nevada and Utah. We break it all down in this video.
Support me on Patreon: patreon.com/c/nationalparkdiaries
Follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/nationalparkdiaries
Follow me on Threads: threads.com/@nationalparkdiaries
Sources and Resources:
npca.org/articles/8891-house-advances-budget-bill-reducing-national-park-service-staff-amid-peak
nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/05/house-bill-drops-public-lands-sales-seen-harmful-parks-wildlife
westernpriorities.org/2025/05/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-is-still-ugly-for-public-lands
npca.org/articles/9089-6-worst-things-that-happened-to-national-parks-last-month
npca.org/resources/4103-the-reconciliation-bill-that-could-reshape-national-parks-forever
cbo.gov/publication/61415
Images:
Storyblocks
NPCA
Yale University
