Can protecting nature be nonpartisan?

Can protecting nature be nonpartisan?

In early July, the Bureau of Land Management quietly announced plans to trade away 2 million acres of public land along Alaska’s Dalton Highway. The immense stretch of boreal forest totters into tundra, an area almost three times the size of Rhode Island. It will be handed over to the state, likely opening the door to mining and development. The exchange is one of many moves by the Trump administration to privatize public land and roll back clim…