A historic legal victory could give Alaska tribes more control over their fish, wildlife and homelands.
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Amid a desolate mess in Cisco, Utah, a young woman resurrects a home.
Sheep grazing in the state’s largest wilderness area could endanger a dwindling bighorn sheep herd.
What happens to a community when its sense of belonging begins to unravel?
Can one man’s pie-in-the-sky idea save one of the West’s most iconic and underloved rivers?
A former sports writer tries to find a place for himself in the outdoors.
In Oregon, a cluster of lakes is drying up — with dire impacts for the millions of migrating birds that survive off them.
Women in the male-dominated world of wildland firefighting still face harassment, abuse and sexism.
How the Animas River disaster forced Silverton to face its pollution problem — and its destiny.
For over a century, federal law has split Native American land holdings into tiny pieces. A settlement unites some of the splinters, but at a steep cost.
A Westerner traces the roots – and meaning – of the Oregon occupation.
Dedicated volunteers fight to preserve one of the trails that brought settlers west.
Immigrants still follow Juan Bautista de Anza’s historic route.
In one of the West’s biggest arguments, the battle lines are complicated and opaque.
How rural ‘constitutional’ peace officers are joining the war against the feds.
How a small-time mining dispute in Oregon readied a network of militias for the Malheur occupation.
The federal agency has been researching nonlethal means to protect livestock for decades. So why is it still killing so many carnivores?
Scientific inquiry is a process of constant revision. And revision is where the most intriguing discoveries happen.
Researchers look to Southwestern ranchers to learn why we share — and what happens when we don’t.
Did one of Nevada’s top water regulators try to cash in on the drought?
Its defenders won a long fight over water with Los Angeles. Now, drought is raising new questions about its future.
Where ‘keep it in the ground’ meets ‘keep the lights on.’
Industrial solar and wind endanger wildlife but are getting more support than ever.
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