Indigenous communities face disproportionate barriers to voting, but the act would help protect this important right.
Race & Racism
At Small Axe Farm, producers learn how to tend vegetables and grow their businesses.
A simple tool becomes a form of self-defense.
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.
Tasked to map an enigmatic aquifer for future water management, scientists confront political and scientific uncertainty.
I want people of color to feel called to reclaim natural spaces.
Nawaaz Ahmed’s debut novel ponders endings from beginnings.
Kay Bounkeua discusses growing up Lao-Chinese in the state, her connection to landscape and what’s next for the conservation movement.
From Havre to Bozeman, the push for equity persists.
In 2013, anti-gang activist Terrance Roberts shot a man in the Holly, a historically Black neighborhood in Denver. What really happened that night?
Once denied their Second Amendment rights, Asian Americans are heading to gun shops in droves.
The descendants of those once enslaved by tribes continue to push for equality.
Policymakers and activists fight to remove pro-segregation, anti-immigrant provisions from property deeds.
‘History is repeating itself.’
Is Congress coercing the Choctaw Nation into doing away with discriminatory policies?
A recent wave of legislation fights for Black women’s right to wear natural styles and have safe hair products.
Carrying on the legacy of Alma Smith Jacobs requires representation and education.
Many early Wyoming coal towns had thriving Black communities.
Former EPA program leader shares ideas for federal action in the Biden administration.
On the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, girls and women box, march and continue searching for those lost.
A new history of the state traces early civil rights battles spearheaded by Black activists.
At an annual rodeo in Phoenix, the contributions of African Americans are finally recognized.
Across the globe, anti-Indigenous organizations and sympathizers work to undermine the collective rights of Indigenous peoples.
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CONSERVATION FIELD ORGANIZER 
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UTAH STATE DIRECTOR
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STAFF ATTORNEY Staff Attorney The role of the Staff Attorney is to bring litigation on behalf of Western Watersheds Project, and at times our allies, in the...
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