This week, we take a deep dive into one of the most aggressive and coordinated efforts to undermine public lands protections, clean air rules, and historical integrity at our national parks in years.

Key Stories Covered:

🔹 Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill Proposes Sale of 3.3 Million Acres of Public Lands Across 11 Western States

• https://www.outdooralliance.org/blog/2025/6/12/senate-spending-package-proposes-selling-off-33-million-acres-of-public-land

• https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/DF7B7FBE-9866-4B69-8ACA-C661A4F18096

🔹 DOJ Opinion Dismantles Antiquities Act Protections

• https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1403101/dl

🔹 NEPA Rollbacks via New Categorical Exclusions at National Parks

• https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/nps-expands-streamlined-environmental-reviews

🔹 $200 Billion LNG Export Deals Announced

• https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretaries-burgum-wright-join-jera-and-us-lng-producers

🔹 BLM Holds Back-to-Back Oil and Gas Lease Sales in Wyoming

• https://www.blm.gov/press-release/blm-oil-and-gas-lease-sale-wyoming-generates-over-77-million-revenue

• https://www.blm.gov/press-release/blm-oil-and-gas-lease-sale-wyoming-generates-over-14-million-revenue

🔹 EPA Proposes Repeal of Power Plant Pollution Standards

• https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/epa-proposes-repeal-power-plant-pollution-standards

🔹 New Park Signs Mandated to Suppress Historical Truths

• https://www.npca.org/articles/9321-new-park-signs-undermine-rangers-aim-to-erase-history

Good News This Week:

🌿 Mining provision threatening Boundary Waters removed from federal budget bill.

• https://www.northernnewsnow.com/2025/06/11/bwcaw-mining-provision-removed-trumps-big-beautiful-bill/

🌿 Ghost Orchid Proposed for ESA Protection by USFWS.

• https://www.npca.org/articles/9254-ghost-orchid-proposed-for-endangered-species-act-protections

👉 Call your senators before July 4th and demand they oppose public land sell-offs and environmental rollbacks in the Senate’s version of the budget bill.

👉 Follow us on Instagram (@outdoor.minimalist.book) for quick news breakdowns and action alerts.

Have tips, testimonials, or insights on public land changes? Submit them through our Google Form (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/JwC73G8wLvU6kedc9⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠)

By now, we’ve all heard the term greenwashing. 

But have you ever heard of green hushing? 

Greenhushing seems to be a growing trend where businesses, afraid of backlash or political controversy, choose to stay silent about their sustainability efforts or climate positive approaches. 

And while it might seem like a safer, quieter path in a polarized world, green hushing can actually hurt your business more than it helps.

Today on the show, I’m talking with Jason Parkin.

Jason is a passionate advocate for using business as a force for good, with a focus on sustainability and climate action. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Outdoor Industry Association and contributes to several sustainability-focused committees, including the Sustainability Working Group of People for Bikes. 

With over 25 years of experience in creative strategy, user-centered design, and digital media, Jason has led award-winning projects and co-founded Motionbox, a personal video platform later acquired by HP Snapfish.

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Website: https://composedcreative.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/compose-d/

Cash Calculator: https://protectourwinters.org/climate-finance

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Episode Resources

BIVO NYT Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/business/trumps-china-tariffs-small-businesses.html

Ever.Green: https://www.ever.green/

Outdoor Industry Association: https://outdoorindustry.org/

Topo Finance: https://www.topofinance.org/

This week, we cover a relentless wave of threats to America’s public lands and environmental protections.

But it’s not all bad news, because we wrap up with some powerful land-back victories, state park expansions, and global actions to #BeatPlasticPollution.

Key Topics This Week:

1. Senate Budget Bill Public Land Sales

• Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) moves to reinstate a provision to sell 500,000+ acres of public land in Nevada and 11,000+ acres in Utah.

• Parcels affected include land near Zion National Park, desert tortoise habitat, and lands adjacent to Las Vegas.

• No restrictions on resale — paving the way for luxury developments, mines, and strip malls.

2. What Else Is in the Budget Bill?

• Fast-tracks oil, gas, and mining projects by weakening environmental reviews.

• Opens new offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

• Increases national forest logging quotas and 20-year timber contracts.

• Cuts climate adaptation and restoration funding.

3. Department of the Interior (DOI) Deregulatory Blitz

• Rescinds 2024 rule protecting 13 million acres in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve.

• Appoints Kevin Pendergast as BLM Alaska State Director.

• Rolls back 18 federal energy regulations nationwide.

• Green-lights new timber, oil, gas, and mineral leases across Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and Alaska.

4. Supreme Court’s NEPA Decision (May 29)

• An 8-0 ruling limits NEPA’s scope so agencies no longer required to analyze cumulative and downstream environmental impacts.

• Case involved a proposed Utah crude oil railway; ruling sets precedent for pipelines, highways, and fossil fuel infrastructure.

👉 Call your senators before July 4th and demand they oppose public land sell-offs and environmental rollbacks in the Senate’s version of the budget bill.

👉 Follow us on Instagram (@outdoor.minimalist.book) for quick news breakdowns and action alerts.

Have tips, testimonials, or insights on public land changes? Submit them through our Google Form (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/JwC73G8wLvU6kedc9⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠)

Resources & Action Links:

NRDC Overview of House Budget Impacts on Public Lands (https://www.nrdc.org/media/house-bill-would-destroy-public-lands-forests-and-oceans)

Supreme Court Limits NEPA — Democracy Now (https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/30/headlines/supreme_court_sharply_limits_scope_of_landmark_environmental_law)

Yurok Tribe Land-Back Victory — AP News (https://apnews.com/article/yurok-tribe-land-back-salmon-restoration-california-57632c4170995a0067eb89dbeb080f80)

Sleeping Giant State Park Expansion (https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/ct-hamden-sleeping-giant-state-park-expansion-20357085.php)

Minnesota Public Forestland Acquisition (https://www.wdio.com/front-page/top-stories/st-louis-county-to-acquire-additional-public-forest-land/)

World Environment Day 2025 — UNEP (https://www.unep.org/ietc/news/blogpost/5-june-world-environment-day-2025-beatplasticpollution)

Correction: In this episode, the guest mentioned that the EPA was formed in the 1990s. To clarify, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was actually established in December 1970 under President Richard Nixon, in response to growing public concern about environmental pollution.

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Water is something that intersects with every aspect of our lives, both at home and in the backcountry.

Whether you're filtering water from a stream, swimming in a local lake, or filling up a glass of water at home, the quality of that water matters.

But knowing if your home water quality is up to important health standards can be confusing to understand, which is why we wanted to tackle the question of how exactly we can know if our water is safe to drink and what to do about if it isn’t. 

Joining me is Cydian Kauffman, the founder of Pure Water Northwest. He helps homeowners, families, and communities take control of their water quality using science-backed, practical solutions.

With years of hands-on experience in water treatment and a passion for public education, Cydian has guided clients across the Pacific Northwest through challenges like industrial runoff, high iron levels, bacterial contamination, arsenic, iron bacteria, and even mysterious health issues tied to hidden toxins in household water.

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Episode Resources

EWG Tap Water Database: https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/

Tapscore Home Water Testing Kits: https://mytapscore.com/

Water Quality Association of America: https://wqa.org/

This week, we break down the biggest public lands headlines you might have missed.

We’cover:

• How public pressure killed a plan to sell off over 500,000 acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah

• Why the House bill still poses serious threats to national parks, the Arctic Refuge, and Boundary Waters

• How Trump’s administration is gutting environmental protections while ramping up reckless oil, gas, and mining leases

• The administration’s push to rewrite American history at national parks and historic sites

• A quiet but damaging rollback of single-use plastics bans in our national parks

• Ongoing legal challenges and grassroots victories proving that public action still makes a difference

👉 Call your senators before July 4th and demand they oppose public land sell-offs and environmental rollbacks in the Senate’s version of the budget bill.

👉 Follow us on Instagram (@outdoor.minimalist.book) for quick news breakdowns and action alerts.

Have tips, testimonials, or insights on public land changes? Submit them through our Google Form (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/JwC73G8wLvU6kedc9⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠)

Episode Resources:

https://www.outdooralliance.org/blog/2025/5/22/land-sell-offs-removed-from-spending-bill-but-its-still-bad 

https://www.npca.org/articles/8891-house-advances-budget-bill-reducing-national-park-service-staff-amid-peak 

https://www.conservationlands.org/republicans_strip_sell_off_provisions_but_public_lands_still_on_the_chopping_block 

https://protectourwinters.org/most-dangerous-climate-rollback/ 

https://westernpriorities.org/2025/05/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-is-still-ugly-for-public-lands/ 

https://www.wilderness.org/articles/press-release/house-passes-big-giveaway-budget-bill-drilling-and-mining-interests-reap-huge-rewards

https://westernpriorities.org/2025/05/new-dashboard-tracks-federal-oil-and-gas-leasing-under-trump/

https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/map-wildlife-habitat-migration-routes-under-threat

https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3431-restoring-truth-and-sanity-american-history 

https://westernpriorities.org/2025/05/interior-secretary-orders-national-parks-to-ask-visitors-to-report-negative-depictions-of-u-s-history/

https://www.npca.org/articles/8957-trump-administration-reverses-course-brings-plastics-back-to-litter 

https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3430-rescission-secretarys-order-so-3407-department-wide 

https://www.nrdc.org/court-battles/how-nrdc-fighting-against-trump-administration 

https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/lawsuit-challenges-trump-order-opening-pacific-monument-to-commercial-fishing 

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-plan-to-accelerate-national-forest-logging-spurs-lawsuit-2025-05-16/?_gl=1*kqdrt9*_gcl_au*MjE0NDkzODUwNy4xNzQ4NTM5NjEw 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/climate/youth-climate-lawsuit-trump-executive-orders.html

In this episode, we're doing something a little different: a group breakdown of the new Netflix documentary Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy.

This unsettling (and sometimes oddly playful) film looks into the hidden forces behind our consumer culture and how companies manipulate us to buy more, waste more, and stay distracted.

We discuss our key takeaways, critiques of the documentary's production choices, and how it ties into themes of sustainability, minimalism, and conscious consumption. From dystopian AI narrators to clickbait capitalism, we’re unpacking it all.

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This week, we’re breaking down a sweeping federal budget package passed by the House on May 22 and what it means for America’s public lands, waters, and environmental protections.

In this episode:

• The public lands sell-offs we stopped — and how grassroots action made it happen.

• How deep staffing cuts at the National Park Service and Forest Service are hollowing out essential public lands operations just ahead of peak season.

• The quiet but relentless expansion of fossil fuel development on public lands, with new oil and gas lease sales announced in North Dakota, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, and New Mexico.

• Changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and old-growth forest protections that fast-track extraction projects and sideline public oversight.

• A dangerous new directive threatening free, honest historical interpretation within the National Park Service.

Plus:

• A small but important win at Mount Rainier National Park with the rollout of a limited timed-entry system.

• Alarming impacts of agency consolidation in Alaska, where the National Park Service regional office has lost a third of its workforce.

Have tips, testimonials, or insights on public land changes? Submit them through our Google Form (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://forms.gle/JwC73G8wLvU6kedc9⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠)

Episode Resources:

https://www.outdooralliance.org/blog/2025/5/22/land-sell-offs-removed-from-spending-bill-but-its-still-bad 

https://www.npca.org/articles/8891-house-advances-budget-bill-reducing-national-park-service-staff-amid-peak 

https://www.sierraclub.org/washington/2025-end-of-session-report 

https://grist.org/politics/house-republican-tax-bill-inflation-reduction-act-repeal-clean-energy-tax-credits/

https://www.nwf.org/Home/Latest-News/Press-Releases/2025/5-21-2025-Removal-of-Public-Lands-Transfer-Testament-to-Public-Input 

https://www.nwf.org/Home/Latest-News/Press-Releases/2025/5-22-2025-Reconciliation-Package 

https://www.wilderness.org/articles/press-release/house-passes-big-giveaway-budget-bill-drilling-and-mining-interests-reap-huge-rewards

https://www.outdooralliance.org/blog/2025/5/19/bigger-cuts-to-staff-at-public-land-agencies-will-affect-outdoor-recreation 

https://www.blm.gov/press-release 

https://www.doi.gov/news

https://www.npca.org/articles/8759-mount-rainier-rolls-out-limited-seasonal-reservation-system 

https://www.npca.org/articles/8825-national-park-service-alaska-regional-office-decimated-by-staff-cuts-and 

https://www.npca.org/articles/8858-new-order-threatens-park-service-s-efforts-to-protect-and-explore-american 

https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/nonprofits-sue-trump-administration-over-illegal-freeze-billions-electric-vehicle 

https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/judge-deals-significant-blow-unconstitutional-reorganization-federal-government 

https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/house-passes-new-attack-clean-air-protections

In episode 182 of the Outdoor Minimalist podcast, we have a conversation about something that every outdoor lover eventually has to reckon with: how do we keep doing the activities we love for as long as possible? 

To do that, I’m joined by Linden Loren.

Linden is a conservation advocate, co-founder of Camo & Wind, and author of Your Hunting Healthspan: 73 Ways Hunters Can Age Better & Prevent Disease. He is the Marketing Director for Kudupoint Broadheads, a board member of the American Bear Foundation, and a member of the Northwest Outdoor Writers Association. Linden enjoys hunting in the Pacific Northwest, where he can spend time outdoors and provide his family with food.

We talk about the fear of aging out of your favorite activities, why simple, consistent habits matter more than extreme trends, and how reshaping your mental framework can open the door to years of adventure ahead. 

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Your Hunting Healthspan: https://camoandwind.com/your-hunting-healthspan/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linden_loren/?hl=en

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linden-loren-b694b2196/

Camo & Wild: https://camoandwind.com/about/

This week, we break down the whirlwind of public lands policy battles happening in Congress and at the Department of the Interior.

But it’s not all grim. We also share a couple glimmers of good news, including a federal court decision slowing mass staff layoffs in national parks and a creative billboard campaign calling out those responsible for the growing park service crisis.

What's covered:

• The One Big Beautiful Bill Act and what it means for public lands, clean energy, and climate policy

• Their plan to sell 500,000 acres of public lands in Utah and Nevada

• Fast-tracking oil, gas, and uranium projects under the guise of a “national energy emergency”

• Rollbacks on solar and wind development rules on BLM-managed lands

What does it really mean to restore the land, and where do you even begin when faced with the complexity of ecological repair?

In episode 181 of the Outdoor Minimalist podcast, I’m joined by Paula Whyman, author of Bad Naturalist, to explore what happens when one person takes on the challenge of rewilding a landscape and the lessons learned along the way. 

She is also the author of the award-winning short story collection You May See a Stranger. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The American Scholar, and more. 

In her new book and this conversation, Paula shares the real-world realities of restoring damaged ecosystems — complete with unexpected surprises, setbacks, and personal growth.

But this isn’t just a story about managing hundreds of acres. It’s about recognizing that anyone can reconnect with nature and make a difference, no matter where they live. Whether it’s a backyard garden, a city balcony, or a patch of lawn, restoration and rewilding can begin wherever you are.

And I think this conversation lands at just the right time. 

In a world where we’re constantly bombarded by bad news, it’s easy to feel powerless, when my anxiety spikes, my therapist likes to remind me to focus on what I can control. 

Paula’s story is a reminder of that, too — of the simple, tangible things we can tend to our own lives and communities. It’s a hopeful, inspiring conversation to carry with you into spring and summer as we all look for ways to reconnect with the natural world and spark a little joy close to home.

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