Public Lands & Protected Spaces

The hosts of the true-crime podcast “National Park After Dark” discuss the dangers public lands face — and how people can stand up to protect them.

Evidence from the pandemic found that bighorn sheep populations soared when people weren’t around to disturb them.

Helping Indigenous peoples to protect forests and other shared resources will keep us all safer from climate change and other threats.

What can Germany’s long-defunct Iron Curtain tell us about our place on Earth?

Agriculture drained this ecosystem. Now, under the specter of future drought, the same systems have started to bring back both water and wildlife.

Meet the Fab Five: A combination of visual and virtual community engagement tools using charismatic species to help win hearts and minds toward saving the ocean.

To bring more water to the landscape — and fight the growing risk of catastrophic wildfires — a Tribe in California helps to reshape fire management policy.

As the dams come down, crews prepare for miles of new vegetation to rise up. That starts with thousands of tiny acorns.

Conservationists agree that Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands are an ecologically important area, but how to protect them isn’t as simple.

A pumped hydro facility is just one of many proposed clean energy projects that threaten cultural property of the Yakama Nation.