The Nature Conservancy just announced its largest Washington land purchase to date.
Public Lands
Here are 11 stats on why that matters.
The nearly 150-year old law allows mining companies to extract resources like copper and lithium royalty-free.
The act is the New Deal redux, with a splash of ecosystem restoration.
Searchable BLM reports and satellite images for 20,000 grazing allotments.
Can officials greenlight booming development and clean up the air at the same time?
The agency's main Freedom of Information Act office appears incompetent or overworked.
Outdated rules and budget shortfalls make it hard to catch.
Intimidation of federal officials is widespread across the West.
The ultra-right ‘remedy’ for public lands.
Public-land employees are easy targets for a violent, government-hating fringe.
Excerpts from official accounts of threats against U.S. Forest Service and BLM employees.
Four experts discuss threats to federal public-lands employees and where we go from here.
Lessons from southwest Colorado’s Hermosa Creek.
Trails, campgrounds and wildlands will qualify for federal funding for improvements.
How a gigantic federal bureaucracy is positioning itself to manage resources at a “landscape” level.
Entrance fees haven't gone up since 2008.
As a deal gets sweetened, how do you measure what’s fair?
On troubling corporate and Forest Service conduct in Arizona.
Increased border security means that all 517 square miles are again open to the public.
Review of ‘The Carry Home; Lessons from the American Wilderness’ by Gary Ferguson.
High Country News coverage of the evolution of wilderness since 1970.
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