The court case was the Nation’s bid to accelerate decades of fruitless negotiations and secure water for its reservation.
Analysis
Rounding up the Biden administration’s ups and downs on land policy.
Climate change and the urban heat islands take their toll from Phoenix to Portland.
Conservatives aren’t so keen on conservation.
The bid to diminish national monuments threatens landscape preservation.
The agreement isn’t the sustainable, permanent one that’s necessary.
A beleaguered Colorado waterway garners new attention.
Can a flurry of new power lines tame California’s solar conundrum?
The new Public Lands Rule would put conservation on par with other uses.
Record-breaking rain and snow bring salvation — and destruction — to a drought-parched West.
Five decades ago, the late Navajo Nation President Peterson Zah described America’s ‘power madness.’
Yet grazing fees remain puzzlingly low.
There’s a historic reckoning in the Colorado River Basin — and Katie Hobbs is here to play hard ball.
Over the past decade, they’ve destroyed 246% more homes and buildings.
The president has riled up just about everyone with his public-land policies. Maybe that’s a good thing.
The Biden administration’s policies signal a shift in lands management, but a sea change is yet to come.
The now-dead proposal to ‘investigate’ reservations was neither the beginning or the end of combative attitudes towards tribal nations in the state.
Fierce opposition to the project is likely.
California’s current deluge highlights huge vulnerabilities.
It was a bad year for dams and a good one for ‘green’ metals.
Breaking down population’s role in the environmental impact equation.
The foundational document was flawed from the start.
A five-year fight over a few dozen clams in Washington highlights the inconsistent rights of Indigenous tribes.
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