Benji Backer

Conservationist working to make a better world. Building the next generation of America’s conservation movement via United By Nature and @ninp_org.

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

@caseymurph1 Yes…and/or they personally benefit by them being sold off

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

America's public lands should ALWAYS stay in American citizen's hands.

Selling-off our public lands to satisfy out-of-touch elites should never be on the table.

[Nature Is Nonpartisan @NINP_org]

Kids who grow up around green space tend to have better mental health as adults.

Researchers in Denmark followed more than 900,000 people from birth, using satellite images to measure how much green surrounded each child's home through age 10. Then they tracked their mental health into adulthood.

The children who grew up with the least green space had up to 55% higher risk of developing a psychiatric disorder later in life.

The link held even after accounting for income, family history, and whether kids lived in a city. And it was dose-dependent.

More years near green, lower risk.

The effect did not require wilderness. A neighborhood with trees or a field within walking distance was enough.

We tend to file green space under nice to have.

For a kid's developing mind, the research keeps pointing somewhere closer to essential.

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

AI shouldn’t be allowed in any political ad, sorry not sorry

[Reagan Reese @reaganreese_]

NEW: The Trump-aligned org Citizens for Sanity is dropping a six-figure ad buy in the Texas Senate race.

The ad is a 15 second clip of AI-generated James Talarico singing a "trans kids" rendition of “Favorite Things."

Obtained first by @DailyCaller:

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

Our country should probably start following rules and morals again sometime soon

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: A judge in district court in Lubbock County, Texas, has granted the injunction requested by Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby. He’s set to be eligible for the 2026 season.

Sorsby cannot play in Texas Tech's first two games, which was the penalty his legal team suggested to the NCAA.

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

Absolutely not. This destroys some of America’s most wondrous natural heritage with zero impact on immigration issues.

Bad for Texas, bad for America, and entirely unnecessary.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: DHS just waived all environmental laws to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park.

This marks the first time in American history the feds have gutted dozens of laws to push industrial-level construction through a national park.

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

@Todd_Rosiak How can someone with a near 7 career ERA in 127 games continually make an MLB roster, especially a contender's?

[Chron @chron]

🌳 Texas is getting a massive new state park.

Texas just unveiled plans for a huge new Hill Country state park. Silver Lake State Park will span nearly 54,000 acres, making it the second largest in the state once development is complete.

Read more at https://t.co/3p6PBD5Y9l

#texas #texasnews

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Arizona wastes an extraordinary amount of water growing alfalfa in the literal desert. It's ~27% of the state's total water use.

This is extremely uneconomical, and if farmers were forced to to pay anything close to the actual value of that water, it would disappear overnight.

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

We don't need more "fighters" as leaders.

We need more builders and doers.

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

Looking back at history, humanity has never regretted saving a natural place, even if it was unpopular or uneconomic at the time

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

I know this is a crazy idea, but we should probably stop supporting candidates who are consistently immoral in their personal life.

Immorality doesn't just go away once someone is elected. It intensifies.

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

Just absolutely backwards.

Horrible for our country, horrible for our fellow citizens, horrible for our environment.

[CNN @CNN]

Key Biden-era regulations designed to protect the nation’s drinking water from the most dangerous cancer-causing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, have been removed by the Trump administration. https://t.co/yCfj23xnfH

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

It's America last to continue putting our nation's environment last

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

@GaryWockner @United_ByNature @WaltonFamilyFdn @NationalForests @NationalParkFdn @americaslands_ EPIC!!!

[Luke Glaser @LukeGlaser1]

Sent a letter to @BenjiBacker eight years ago to come visit and see our mountains, and he made good!

Great to meet a man doing incredible work, and everyone else that was part of the @BrookingsInst @AEI Commission on Rural Prosperity

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail.

Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

Love nature - and rich or poor - you will always enjoy life's most grand treasure.

[Benji Backer @BenjiBacker]

If we can't conserve our nation's natural beauty or our resources, we won't conserve our nation.

It's really that simple.

[Nature Is Nonpartisan @NINP_org]

In case no one told you, you own 640 million acres of public land.