Wes Siler

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Contributing Editor at Outside Magazine

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500,000 Acre Public Land Sale May Be Back In Senate Budget

4 days ago | wessiler.substack.com | Wes Siler

According to E&E News, Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) responded in the affirmative when asked if he intends to revive a provision requiring the sale of over 500,000 acres of public land in Nevada and Utah, now that the Senate is marking up the House budget. Lee is a follower of extremist Mormon teachings that claim man has dominion over nature, and has previously stated a goal of selling off all public land. He’s also Chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Listen To Me Explain The Great Public Land Heist To Europeans

1 week ago | wessiler.substack.com | Wes Siler

Matthew Barr is a longtime outdoor recreation industry creative from England who makes a podcast calledLooking Sideways, where he talks to big name athletes and examines that world through the lens of the action sports he participates in. He lives in Normandy, not far from the beaches where 29,000 Americans gave their lives defeating fascism the first go-round. It’s no surprise that he’s struggling to understand why Americans have chosen our current path, and called me to ask fro an explanation.
Bear Spray Could Save Your Life. Here's How to Use it Right.

1 week ago | backpacker.com | Wes Siler

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Experts may disagree on some details of how to behave in bear habitat, but just about every researcher who has spent a meaningful amount of time studying the big guys agrees on one thing: Bear spray is essential for anyone headed to grizzly country.
GoFundMe Is The New FEMA

1 week ago | wessiler.substack.com | Wes Siler

Hurricane season starts next week. And long-term forecasts suggest it might be a bad one. What will happen to people who lose their homes, or in communities where infrastructure is damaged? All signs point towards desperate pleas for help on crowdfunding platforms, as the Trump administration dismantles the Federal Emergency Management Agency. One of the big pieces in the unravelling of America’s social contract that I’ve been watching is FEMA disaster relief.
With These 5 Tips, You Can Overland The Entire Planet

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Wes Siler

1 day agoIn a significant move that marks a departure from its traditional e-bike offerings, Trek has introduced the FX+ 1, its first-ever electric bike equipped with a throttle. This launch responds to growing consumer demand for more versatile and accessible e-biking options, particularly in the North …
5 Tips for Living a More Adventurous Life, According to a Professional Overlander

1 week ago | outsideonline.com | Wes Siler

In 2014, Scott Brady, the founder of Overland Journal, became the first person to cross all seven continents by four-wheel drive -a frequently off-grid endeavor that had him tackling some of the most extreme terrain on earth. In 2018, Brady went on to complete the first 4WD crossing of the Greenland ice sheet, south to north. While these kinds of objectives might seem out of reach for the average car camper, Brady begs to differ: He says it's way simpler than you think.
How To Set Up A Lever Gun For Home Defense

2 weeks ago | wessiler.substack.com | Wes Siler

I just finished building my wife Virginia a Marlin 1894 in .44 Magnum for perimeter defense duty around our cabin, and during car camping trips here in the American west. Based on lessons learned from my own Marlin 1895, I think it’s an ideal combination of reliability, ease of use, handiness, and a hard-hitting caliber that should work as well on two-legged predators as it does on four. Here’s everything I learned along the way. I get it.
We Can Beat Them

2 weeks ago | wessiler.substack.com | Wes Siler

Early this morning, the House of Representatives voted along party lines to approve its budget package. The measure will now be sent to the Senate. Republican leaders say they hope to pass it there by Monday. And while the measures contained in it still represent a massive redistribution of wealth from normal Americans to billionaires, still blow up the deficit, and still visit unprecedented harm to public lands, the measure to sell off more than 500,000 acres of our land has been removed.
You'll Get A Kick Out Of This One...

2 weeks ago | wessiler.substack.com | Wes Siler

Virginia and I are about to drive up to the cabin for Memorial Day weekend. I’ll be back with more stories and coverage of the land-stealing, poor person-murdering House budget tomorrow. In the meantime, enjoy this interview with GunsAmerica, the comments on which should be…fun. If you subscribe to Matthew Barr’s Looking Sideways, he also just published a great video conversation between the two of us. I’ll repost that here next week, when it’s available to the general public.
How You Can Fight The House Budget

2 weeks ago | wessiler.substack.com | Wes Siler

Created by Resistance Rangers, a group of National Park Service employees working in their spare time to fight against the destruction of our public lands and the workforce that supports them, here’s all the scripts, talking points, and contact information you need to call key members of Congress, and urge them to vote against the House budget reconciliation package.