Minorities, millennials and urbanites are less likely to visit national parks than upwardly mobile, white baby-boomers.
Public Lands
As National Public Lands Day approaches, Indigenous leaders discuss working with agencies to manage dispossessed lands.
The agency is taking a hard look at how to protect land and wildlife while welcoming ever more visitors.
Rounding up the Biden administration’s ups and downs on land policy.
The presidential power tool for land conservation since Teddy Roosevelt.
Modest increases in visitation and infrastructure since this Colorado monument designation in 2000.
Ranchers, landowners, environmentalists still disagree over the designation.
This Washington insider’s ‘hidden hand’ has guided the environmental achievements of presidents for two decades.
A writer wonders if this piece of Northern California federal land is worth the new designation.
Sen. John McCain proposes more immediate access at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Questions remain over whether the bill prohibits certain data collection on federal land or just private and state.
How the behind-the-scenes lobby group American Lands Council gets funding.
Sen. John McCain’s proposal would give Border Patrol more immediate access to sensitive borderlands.
More commercial flights are expected this year, if they meet federal noise standards.
Russell Begaye is an opponent of the proposed Grand Canyon Escalade $1 billion tourism project.
An obscure provision in two environmental laws is the weapon of choice in a bureaucratic Sagebrush Rebellion.
The proposal to use emergency funding faces a key obstacle: Sen. Murkowski.
A rundown of the legislation in each state and a look into the motives behind them.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is not immune to effects of the Bakken oil boom.
Juan Palma discusses states' rights, landscape-scale planning and how personal history affects public decisions.
How will the tribe's new president handle the controversial Escalade project?
Plus a Cliven Bundy supporter is charged and BLM emails about the Nevada standoff were released.
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