Conservation groups have developed a new mobile application that lets users to document and report damage they might witness on public lands.
Dubbed TerraTRUTH, the app’s release comes as these lands are seen by some as being at risk, in light of President Donald Trump’s agenda of prioritizing extractive industries and motorized access.
Developers are unveiling it just ahead of recent executive orders taking effect Feb. 2 to trim vast acreages from national monument protections at Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante area.
A crowd-sourced database resulting from use of the app will help track the condition of Bureau of Land Management areas in the National Landscape Conservation System, according to Brian Sybert, executive director of the Conservation Lands Foundation.