Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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Whelp, everyone else is talking about it, so I figured I should to. In this video, we're discussing Project 2025, the much maligned "Presidential Transition Project" for the next Republican Presidential Administration. For fans of National Parks and public lands, Project 2025 is an absolute nightmare. It recommends massive increases in oil and gas drilling on public lands, including in places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Boundary Waters Canoe Area, and the previously off-limits buffer area surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park. It recommends huge staffing and budget cuts for federal land management agencies, the repeal of the Antiquities Act, and the gutting of the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act. It is a verifiable FEAST for extractive industries and private corporations who would seek to profit of our public lands. In this video, I hope to convince you of the dangers it poses to places we all love.

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Sources and Resources:
static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
outsideonline.com/culture/opinion/far-right-plan-destroy-national-monuments
outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/project-2025-paywall-weather
hcn.org/articles/trump-vs-biden-on-the-climate/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/william-perry-pendley-acting-director-blm-ruling
news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/blm-headquarters-moves-to-building-housing-oil-company-offices
legacy-assets.eenews.net/open_files/assets/2021/03/22/document_gw_18.pdf
westernpriorities.org/winning-the-west
federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2021/09/interior-will-move-blm-headquarters-senior-officials-back-to-dc

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