Bulldozers have begun clearing land in Big Bend NP for Trump's border wall and associated measures. https://buff.ly/YeC1gIU

 

An appeals court ruled that Trump cannot build his White House ballroom without congressional approval, setting up a likely appeal to the Supreme Court. https://buff.ly/BWVZ7I5

 

Contractors have arrived at Big Bend NP and appear poised to start building Trump's border wall therein. https://buff.ly/NK1KQyH

 

A Democratic representative is calling out the administration for appointing a co-author of the conservative blueprint Project 2025 to what is supposed to be an independent, nonpartisan position in the Interior Department's Inspector General office. https://buff.ly/ikENQvm

 

At Hopewell Furnace NHS in Pennsylvania, historical demonstrators poured molten iron for the first time since 1883. https://buff.ly/E1escgg

 

Sea life in Scotland's South Arran MPA has rebounded a decade after bottom trawling was banned. https://buff.ly/hB2J704

 

Thirty-seven Democratic senators sent a letter blasting Trump for his latest NMon cuts in Utah. https://buff.ly/oJXkpOU

 

Trump's claims that recreation within Bears Ears NMon was nearly impossible, and hence the NMon needed to be cut down drastically, are contradicted by documents provided to the administration by the state of Utah prior to the decision. https://buff.ly/H9rBdMf

 

A USNPS analysis says that Trump's proposed DC arch with disrupt historic views across the city and beyond. The analysis is based on Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act—which Trump is trying to eviscerate. https://buff.ly/YbKTbJh

 

July 31 is World Ranger Day, set aside to honor protectors who sometimes pay with their lives for conservation. https://mongabay.cc/i79wLw

 

Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ancient geometric earthworks that has been covered by forests in the Amazon. https://buff.ly/W53F4fd