This land is their land: Trump is selling out the US’s beloved wilderness

During the McCarthy era's darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself - and this may be the last chance to defend what's ours

In 1913, on a remote, windswept stretch of buffalo-grass prairie in western North Dakota, Roald Peterson was born - the ninth of 11 children to hardy Norwegian homesteaders.

The child fell in love with the ecosystem he was born into. It was a landscape as awe-inspiring and expansive as the ocean, with hawks riding sage-scented winds by day and the Milky Way glowing at night.