Martin Heinrich: “What would those kinds of reductions in budget do to our wildland firefighter force?”

Someone needs to tell him to get out of his golf cart and touch some grass.

Our national parks and public lands are part of our shared identity.

To put a mine where we went this week just seems insane to me. It would put at risk one of the last great wilderness areas in North America — not just the Boundary Waters, but the Boundary Waters, Quetico and Voyageurs.

Given this administration’s obsession with development and disposal of public lands, it seems clear that this comment period is really just a ploy to weaken protections for public lands,