Three battles over American public land anchor this film: the fight to preserve Bears Ears National Monument in Utah after the Trump administration moves to shrink it, a proposed copper mine near Minnesota's Boundary Waters wilderness, and oil drilling plans in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Journalist and outdoorsman Hal Herring narrates, tracing how roughly a third of the country's land ended up held in public trust and what happens when mining and energy companies, lobbyists, and federal agencies push to open it for extraction. The film intercuts landscape footage, tribal leaders and local hunters, and interviews with activists, scientists, and industry figures who explain the stakes on both sides. Archival material traces the public lands system back through Theodore Roosevelt's conservation era, giving the current fights historical weight. Produced by Patagonia, the film treats these three sites as test cases for a larger argument about who controls unprotected wilderness and whether it stays public at all.