The first Native national parks director talks tribal co-management, historical accuracy, harassment, and the fallacy of “wilderness.”
Public Lands
The hunters who stepped over the corner of a Carbon County ranch did no damage to private property.
The bid to diminish national monuments threatens landscape preservation.
The new Public Lands Rule would put conservation on par with other uses.
In Southeast Alaska, youth help manage a forest and protect an ancient art.
In wealthy, segregated Marin County, a pioneering recruitment program breaks down barriers to the firefighting profession
The revival of Fender’s blue illustrates the collaborative nature of survival.
Experts suggest needed upgrades in the face of modern crises.
In eastern Oregon, one strategy has proven effective at inoculating communities against extremist ideology.
A new venture near Salmon signals an uptick in hardrock mining across the West.
Now is not the time to loosen mining regulations.
A new report aims to advance transforming rangeland conservation across 13 states and 115 million acres.
The Bureau of Land Management is taking comments on whether it should open about 28 million acres to oil, gas and mineral extraction.
New designations could help meet conservation goals set by the administration.
$720 million goes directly to tribal nations, but compromises raise questions.
Number one: Why are Indians spray-painting my Starbucks?
A closer look at the good and the bad of specific provisions in the historic climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act.
Bernard DeVoto’s work has fallen into obscurity, but the land remembers his legacy.
Veteran park service employees were involved in last year’s hunt, but one says he’s a victim of a federal ‘witch hunt.’
In Colorado, a sale of 110 low-producing oil wells illustrates a hot potato effect, and how funding remediation eventually comes from the public.
An enormous blaze dredged up longstanding resentments toward federal officials
War hawks and climate hawks alike are calling for energy independence.
Fossil fuel interest groups are saying: let us keep drilling or the state’s education system will collapse.
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