Montana’s rollback of its water-quality standards comes at a time of heightened attacks on the Clean Water Act nationwide.
The latest map of Colorado wolf movement, released in November, doesn’t show as much southern activity as October’s. But ...
Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the controversial Thacker Pass lithium ...
Nearly every part of the Western U.S. is in drought conditions today. As of December, the National Water and Climate Center’s map of snow-water equivalent is colored red, and most places are less than ...
A recent study from the Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance and Development shows how gaming has helped tribes acquire economic and political capital. The report was written by ...
After repeated calls, texts and letters, the Forest Service sent the ranchers a “notice of noncompliance,” according to documents obtained via public records requests. The agency asserted that the ...
Federal law requires agencies to review the environmental impacts of grazing, but government employees allege the system is riddled with loopholes.
One day in September 2018, as Beth Pratt was hiking in California’s Yosemite National Park, she encountered pile after pile of fresh scat along a creek flowing out of Kuna Lake. She knew it was only a ...
A new study found that about 83% of water passing through public lands uses monument designation for its only protection.
Though the western spotted skunk is less common and more elusive than the more familiar striped skunk, it’s doing better than its cousin back East, where populations have declined by at least 90% ...
Fracking wastewater gushes out of a geyser in Toyah, Texas, in 2024. The geyser flowed water for 19 days before it was stopped. Credit: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images On Oct. 2, ...
With support from the BAND Foundation, High Country News is telling the broader story of conservation in the Western U.S. — a story that crosses property lines, unites communities and connects humans ...
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