Ben Burr

Ben Burr is the executive director of the BlueRibbon Coalition and a former Senate staffer.

Energy & Environment

Trump and Congress can reverse the Left’s under-the-radar campaign to close America’s wilderness to humans

Over the past several decades, the Left has been engaged in a relentless project of slowly closing off the American Frontier to recreationists, and to motorized recreation in particular. Under the Biden Administration alone, 2,978 miles of wilderness roads, two-track, and single-track (motorcycle) trails were permanently closed by career bureaucrats working in conjunction with “conservation”...

April 8, 2025