The rule sought to elevate conservation’s status as a valid public land use, but Trump’s Interior Secretary stressed the ...

Billions in halted or canceled grants, gutted local offices, market turmoil and broken trust are at stake across the West.

Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist, leads a coalition that’s quietly organizing a county-level rejection of the Antiquities Act.

Molly Montgomery is a freelance writer from Santa Fe. She covered Rio Arriba County and agricultural issues at the Rio Grande Sun in Española, where she received a New Mexico Press Association award ...

The Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists, a Tucson nonprofit, made a video about nurse trees — native ones like mesquites, ...

U.S. Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in the West. Trump’s radical upheaval is accelerating the death of a dying art.

Elizabeth Whitman is a writer based in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in Cascade PBS, Cosmopolitan and Nature, among other publications. High Country News ’ weekly email newsletters keep ...

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Cheaper renewables and natural gas began edging out nuclear generation; the San Onofre nuclear plant near San Diego shut down in 2012, and Diablo Canyon near San Luis Obispo was slated for retirement ...

Kathleen Sharp is the author of five books, a PEN Literary Journalism finalist and winner of seven awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. She’s written for The Guardian, among others, ...