The Florida manatee shows what a weakened Endangered Species Act could mean for conservation

Hunters and hikers were among almost 133,000 people opposing potential changes to the Travel Management Rule in national forests. Snowmobile groups were in the minority.

In a recent Newsmax interview, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum was asked about the backlash to the Trump administration’s attempt to shrink the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante na...

The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation made the stunning move after D.C. and Virginia balked over the project's potential harms.

Ninety-nine percent of public comments on the Trump administration’s plan to rewrite the Forest Service’s Travel Management Rule oppose the change, according to a new analysis from the Center for West...

Ninety-nine percent of public comments on the Trump administration’s plan to rewrite the Forest Service’s Travel Management Rule oppose the change, according to a new analysis from the Center for West...

For decades, federal public-land agencies have been underfunded and understaffed. The second Trump administration has exacerbated it.

On August 7, 2026, the Department of the Interior disapproved 140 National Park Service agreements with outside partners at 61 parks, offices, and programs in all seven Park Service regions, as the Wa...

Voters finally felt the threat to public lands had reached a critical point, observers say.

Trump signed orders expanding hunting and fishing access to federal lands, including two national parks in California and Idaho.

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A Trump administration rule change would flip the switch and open up miles of backcountry roads and trails to off-road vehicles.

US Forest Service founders Gifford Pinchot and President Teddy Roosevelt would be rolling in their graves knowing what has become of the world’s largest wildland fire research organization, the very i...

Energy development will kick Sublette pronghorn, Baggs mule deer and other wildlife while they’re down, conservationists assert.

All Interior Department bureaus are considering major shake-ups under an edict from leadership.

The deletion of the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act will force some imperiled species to go extinct and should be reversed, a bipartisan coalition of former federal wildlife offi...

For decades, federal rules have shielded vulnerable animals like the northern spotted owl from harm to their habitat. That changed this summer.