For decades, immigrant communities have used the airwaves to educate and protect themselves. Under Trump, they’re doing it again.
The subversive power of Spanish-language radio
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Trump to rescind the Public Lands Rule
The rule sought to elevate conservation’s status as a valid public land use, but Trump’s Interior Secretary stressed the importance of balancing development alongside protection.
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Farmers face frozen jobs and heavier workloads under DOGE ‘efficiency’ budget
Billions in halted or canceled grants, gutted local offices, market turmoil and broken trust are at stake across the West.
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The crusade to end federal public lands in New Mexico
Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist, leads a coalition that’s quietly organizing a county-level rejection of the Antiquities Act.
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Audio: Under the shade of a nurse tree
Sacrificing for the benefit of other species.
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The horses and mules that moved mountains and hearts
Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in the West. Trump’s radical upheaval is accelerating the death of a dying art.
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Forest Service pauses commercial huckleberry picking in Gifford Pinchot National Forest
The berries are a critical resource for the Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation and have become a big market of the Pacific Northwest food industry.
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The murder, the museum and the monument
How the discovery of a long-lost monument shattered the trust between a Japanese American community and the museum built to preserve their history.
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Meet the people who train wild horses
Volunteers sacrifice time, energy and money to help mustangs removed from the range find homes. Can they convince people to take them?
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Montana’s youth climate activists aren’t stopping at their landmark court win
As lawmakers push back, the kids aren’t giving up.
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How Alaska Native youth are protecting the land for their future
With climate change threatening Indigenous lifeways in Alaska, these four young women are devoting their careers to their preservation.
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Bird flu finds its way into Western wildlife
The deaths of two Washington cougars suggest the virus is more widespread than thought.
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How a crucial homeless shelter in Boise was obstructed by neighbors
The Veterans Park Neighborhood Association sued to halt a shelter’s plans.
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Is a nuclear renaissance coming?
Data center power demand is sparking interest in new reactors.
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The importance of Indigenous curators
These caretakers can help ensure museum collections are handled, and expanded, appropriately.
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In a house of spirits, learning to settle
Making a home is a journey across time and space.
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‘We’re the stewards of the earth’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
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Bigfoot hits the bigtime, America’s Next Top Baby Zoo Animal, and the magic bus miracle
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Protest is another form of love
The patriotic duty of showing up for the land and its stewards.