The Interior Department will soon publish a ‘categorical exclusion’ that will rubber stamp oil and gas development in Alaska’s remote National Petroleum Reserve.

When it came to finding a cover image for August’s special issue on Conversations, we always knew that depicting the ...

Eric Parker from central Idaho aims his weapon from a bridge as protesters gather by the Bureau of Land Management’s base camp near Bunkerville, Nevada, in April 2014. Credit: Jim ...

A firefighter moves hazard fuel while working on the Bear Gulch Fire this summer. Many in the wildland fire community believe the leadership team managing the fire sent crews into an ambush by federal ...

Cows grazing at Point Reyes National Seashore at sunset. Karen Budd-Falen has worked on a longstanding dispute over cows at Point Reyes. MThis story was originally published by Public Domain and is ...

Climate disasters are on the rise in New Mexico and revenues from the state’s biggest polluter are helping to foot the bill.

Standing Rock increased division in North Dakota between Indigenous communities and nearby non-Indigenous communities. Propaganda made it worse.

What new analysis of more than 300 bear encounters shows about the notion of dogs as early bear alarms or deterrents.

Western cattleman are poised to lose almost all opportunity to comment on oil and gas development underneath their property.

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I first read Denis Johnson’s novella Train Dreams outside, leaning against a tree. It was 2019, and my Forest Service trail crew was camped out in a quiet corner of Washington’s Alpine Lakes ...

Sacred to our community since time immemorial, Sandia Mountain is our church, our protector and our source of well-being. It is also home to wildlife and important ecosystems, and a source of beauty ...