Public Lands

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.

Candidates promising action on climate change and public lands won many victories, but several important ballot initiatives were defeated.

Experts fear oil and gas development could permanently damage millions of acres of ecologically and culturally important public lands.

In his new book, ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan chronicles the efforts of “plant midwives,” women who are working to restore edible plants and healing herbs.

Books coming out this month include a series of terrifying climate-change novellas and a look at the occupation of Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge.

Two dams removed from Washington’s Elwha River were branded as salmon-restoration projects, but their watershed and scientific impacts are just as significant.

For 50 years the Land and Water Conservation Fund has helped support thousands of projects across the country, but its funding may be gone by the end of the month.

The respected environmental journalist joins The Revelator to help us tell important stories about climate change, water, wildlife and other essential topics.

We have five questions for Shelley Silbert, executive director of the advocacy group Great Old Broads for Wilderness.

As Sec. Zinke prepares to open Grand Staircase-Escalante to mining, experts and business owners say tourism income far outweighs the potential from fossil-fuel extraction.