Wes Siler

This one's not going to work like that.

It's not clear. The immediate result will be chaos. How, when and who is able to resolve that chaos will determine the long-term solution.

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The Senate Just Voted To Break Public Lands Every permit written on public lands since 1996 may have be rendered invalid

The Senate just voted to invalidate every permit written on public land since 1996. wessiler.substack.com/p/the-senate...

A Comprehensive Guide To National Parks During The Government Shutdown Official insights from the updated NPS contingency plan, and the analysis you need to understand it

Here's everything you need to know about the impacts the government shutdown will have on National Parks: wessiler.substack.com/p/a-comprehe...

National Parks Will Remain Open During Shutdown Memo from acting NPS Director orders parks open

“This is very close to being a worst case scenario. Parks will remain open with only a skeleton crew of only “excepted” staff,” by @wessiler.bsky.social 🌎

National Parks Will Remain Open During Shutdown Memo from acting NPS Director orders parks open

Just scooped this news. Stay tuned for updates and analysis: wessiler.substack.com/p/national-p...

If The Government Shuts Down, Will National Parks Close? Two documents provide conflicting guidance, leaving NPS staff in limbo

How bad the shutdown might be for national parks will depend on two factors: its duration, and whether or not the parks remain accessible to the public: wessiler.substack.com/p/if-the-gov...

This is exactly why I decided to run for office.

How Bad Will A Shutdown Be For National Parks? Rural communities could lose hundreds of millions of dollars a day, and that’s before mass layoffs

Past shutdowns have resulted in $36 million/day of damage to park infrastructure alone. This one could be worse: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

Oil And Gas Begins To Push Back Against Trump Chaos Incompetence is bad for everyone, especially businesses trying to make a buck on public lands and waters

Welcome to the resistance, oil executives... open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

Trump Administration Plans Mass Cuts To National Park Service, Public Land Agencies “For the NPS, that means pretty much all employees,” explains former NPS Director

"Pretty much all" National Park employees could be RIF'd as part of Russell Vought's plan, should the government shutdown on Oct 1. open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...

We Need To Talk About How We Can Effectively Advocate For Better Public Lands Policy Why the pro-public lands world’s inability to communicate accurately is such a problem, and the steps we can all take to do it better

I wrote a four part series explaining all the ways the pro public lands world fails at communicating policy. Here's the conclusion explaining what we can achieve if we learn to do better: wessiler.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

Outside Just Fired Me Because Of My Politics I'm hardly Jimmy Kimmel, but that's also a reason this should worry you

In personal news, the right's persecution of free speech has come to outdoor media too: wessiler.substack.com/p/outside-ju...

Why Wearing Jeans On A Motorcycle Is A Really Bad Idea Wes Siler crash photos and story behind his RSV4 motorcycle crash while wearing jeans and the injuries that resulted.

(2 of 2) @wessiler.bsky.social remains forever memorable 'cause I've pointed numerous friends (+ 1 relation) to his brutally honest article about the dangers of motorcycle riding w/out proper gear.

Incl. X-rays of multiply broken bones AND a pic of his very, very abraded ass. Did I mention honesty?

We Need To Talk About The Public Lands Rule It’s being repealed, in large part, because no one understands it

Everything you've ever read about the Public Lands Rule is wrong. And that's a great example of one of the problems that's created this current moment: wessiler.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

Weird Car Twitter #weirdcarBS one of us (though he doesn't know it) @wessiler.bsky.social is running for state senate in Montana.
Wes gave me my first byline back when he ran RideApart, which he started as Hell For Leather, which was the Jalop of motorcycles.

Congress Just Voted To Break Public Lands Republicans flirt with chaos as they move forward with plan to destroy non-partisan, multi-decade plans for land management

Republicans may not have the support necessary to sell off publicl lands, so they're just going to break their operations and force privatization instead.

Who Is Wes Siler? My biography

I needed to write a biography for an upcoming project I'll announce next month. Figured it'd be fun to share that: wessiler.substack.com/p/who-is-wes...

National Park Service Fires Ranger For Pride Celebration Yosemite’s wildlife data scientist terminated after exercising right to free speech

Trump's NPS is now inventing justifications to fire trans rangers.

Where National Parks And Public Lands Stand Now, As Trump Administration Prepares To Privatize All signs point to a mass sell-off, as park service begins to fail and private equity circles

Public lands might be out of the mainstream headlines, but they're very much front and center in the Trump admins attempts to enrich themselves: wessiler.substack.com/p/where-nati...

An Open Letter To Montana Knife Company About Tariffs This may not be what you voted for, but it is an opportunity to fix it. Here’s how.

A likely quixotic attempt to explain to a MAGA influencer why tariffs will cost him his knife company: wessiler.substack.com/p/an-open-le...

How Far Can The National Parks Thoughtcrime Order Go? Signage policing truth in national parks has started to score victims

Will park rangers be sent to Alligator Auschwitz for teaching history? wessiler.substack.com/p/how-far-ca...

An Easy Guide To Why The GOP’s Public Land Policies Are Fucking Stupid Prioritizing extraction over all else just breaks things, without actually creating more extraction

Among the provisions in the Big Beautiful Bill are giveaways for coal extraction on public lands, plus a re entrenchment of oil and gas at the expense of renewables across 200 million acres.

Roadless Rule Recision Buys Off Murkowski With Taxpayer-Funded Lumber Giveaway To China But all it will achieve is to further break the forest service

Wondering why Lisa Murkowski voted yes on the awful budget reconciliation package? It's because the White House bought her off with a promise to let her destroy America's largest rainforest, and use taxpayer subsidies to sell its old growth timber to China on the cheap:

Mike Lee Withdraws Public Land Sale From Budget Huge win for America as extremist concedes defeat

We won.

Roadless Rule Recision Buys Off Murkowski With Taxpayer-Funded Lumber Giveaway To China But all it will achieve is to further break the forest service

This is the kind of insight I really enjoy bringing to readers. You'll find a lot of news about the roadless rule out there, but no other analysis that actually explains why the decision was made, or what outcomes will result:

Mike Lee Reintroduces Smaller Public Land Sell Off Proposal Despite broad consensus that he’s a douchebag, Mike Lee just won’t give up

Mike Lee just doesn't know when to quit.

Senate Parliamentarian Rules Public Lands Sale Can't Be Included In Budget Reconciliation The move comes as White House strikes protections from 59 million acres of roadless national forest

From beyond the grave, Robert C. Byrd continues to protect American biodiversity:

This week I got to talk with @wessiler.bsky.social

He perfectly explained the modern-day Republican Party in 90 seconds