Forests

Journalist Christopher Ketcham explains why we’re running out of time to save the West’s public lands and wildlife.

The USDA’s Wildlife Services program slaughters millions of wild animals every year — including endangered species. It doesn’t have to.

Residents of southern Arizona are protecting jaguar habitat and creating jobs in the hopes that a restoration economy can beat an extraction economy.

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.

An indigenous resistance is leading the fight to protect Central America's rivers from an onslaught of dams that threaten the region's rich biodiversity.

Ecologist Jodi Hilty explains what conservationists have learned about linking critical habitat areas together.

Products marketed to kill rodents are instead threatening the lives of the wildlife that eat them as poisons travel up the food chain.

What border communities really need are solutions to address economic, health and climate problems — and the mesquite tree can help.

The unexpected announcement reverses a plan to move people out of critical protected habitats — and puts the nation’s amazing biodiversity at risk.

Researcher Emily Francis explains how the coast redwoods and sequoias fared during California’s drought and what that means for future climate resilience.