Public Lands & Protected Spaces

The state used an innovative new law to fight back against the Trump administration’s expansion of oil and gas drilling — and that could provide a model for the rest of the country.

Kanab, a small Utah town that’s home to the famous Best Friends Animal Society, took an unconventional path to face down a frac sand mine that threatened the region’s aquifer.

To reseed or not to reseed? Replanting burned landscapes is a natural response, but doing it wrong comes with costs for species and even the climate.

The Bureau of Land Management relocation to Grand Junction reflects a widespread pattern of destabilization under President Trump.

The ethically challenged acting director of the Bureau of Land Management made a tense appearance at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference last week to discuss his radical record.

Ranchers pay just $1.35 a month to graze cattle on public lands and national forests. You couldn’t feed a cat or dog for 10 times that amount.

A movement to protect quiet places is gaining steam on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, but it has to contend with the Navy’s growing fleet of “Growler” jets.

President Trump’s invocation of a national emergency to build his border wall is worrying and “illegal,” according to scholars.

Elected officials and nonprofits groups are wondering why federal workers are being called back from furlough for nonemergency work that aids industry and hunters.

Two western states have launched new challenges to the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which helps protect some of the country’s most important public lands.