A weeklong journey through the under-documented region, which now has new protections.
Mining
As National Public Lands Day approaches, Indigenous leaders discuss working with agencies to manage dispossessed lands.
In 1885, white coal miners in Wyoming Territory, murdered at least 28 Chinese men and ran the rest of the Chinese out of town at gunpoint. These artworks bring that history back to the present.
Rounding up the Biden administration’s ups and downs on land policy.
Can the U.S. finally vanquish one of the most enduring Lords of Yesterday?
When power players like mining and agriculture are involved, tribal nations, usually the senior-most water-rights holders, often must fight obstruction.
The U.S. Forest Service has told a federal court it is not sure when it will move ahead with the review process.
At the U.N., leaders describe the destruction of Indigenous sacred sites as a ‘major human rights violation.’
Avoiding a new wave of green colonialism is an urgent concern among attendees of the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples.
The new Public Lands Rule would put conservation on par with other uses.
In March, conservationists worldwide celebrated the historic agreement, which governs the ocean waters where salmon spend most of their lives.
Engineers struggled to keep snow geese away from Montana’s deadly Superfund site, but ecologists have a new plan.
In 2019, management abruptly stopped recognizing a union. This week, the company and the union negotiated a new contract.
Previous reporting showed how regulators and the mine teamed up to rebut independent researchers.
A company announced it found the country’s highest-grade rare earth deposit in Montana.
The controversial mine, located on the site of an 1865 massacre of Paiute people, is opposed by tribes and environmental groups.
What does a statue dedicated to mothers reveal about women’s rights?
When faced with new research on health risks in Butte, the agency turned to industry for guidance.
Read a Q&A with Yup’ik fisher and activist Alannah Hurley on the fight for Bristol Bay’s future.
Fierce opposition to the project is likely.
It was a bad year for dams and a good one for ‘green’ metals.
Before the legislative slate is wiped clean on Jan. 3, senators needs to pass the Grand Canyon Protection Act.
Scientists think climate change may be the culprit.
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