A slate of projects aimed at preserving the future of California's iconic Joshua tree in has been scrapped after the Trump administration blocked more than $25 million in funding for national parks th...

The Forest Service hasn't hosted a single public meeting on the proposal to repeal the Roadless Rule. Thousands showed up anyway at their own town halls across the country.

Valar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project.

America is undergoing an enormous industrial buildout with remarkably little public visibility. So we built the map and tracker that should already exist.

The partner organizations were planning conservation or cultural resource projects in parks across the Mountain West.

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An Arizona-based tour company is suing the Trump administration over its move to impose higher national park visitor fees on people who don’t live in the U.S. In a new filing Monday, Across Ar…

Conservation groups are pushing back against efforts by the Trump administration to rescind protections for undeveloped land from further development. They said such efforts threaten crucial habitat a...

Under the banner of “Dig, Baby, Dig,” the Trump administration is supercharging an already powerful mining industry. What will happen to vulnerable plants and animals?

State officials said they are working on a public access, safety and operations plan for the future recreation site. A popular 92-foot waterfall formerly at risk of being closed to […]

A wealthy ranch owner’s land exchange proposal would privatize thousands of acres of public land in the Roaring Fork Valley. It has rankled locals, who say the deal would sidestep normal processes.

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order making changes to how presidential authority under the Defense Production Act (DPA) is delegated. Previously, the president delegat...

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture prepares to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. If the proposal is finalized, it would eliminate a 25-year-old rule that protects some of the

The Trump administration has moved to sell, lease or give away millions of acres of public land and protected parks to private developers.

A wildfire demonstration on two very different homes in a fire station training lot could show Colorado the way forward in mitigation.

Smoky air has descended on Yosemite Valley due to the ongoing blaze.

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The Forest Service is rushing a massive post-fire logging project through a seven-day public comment window. The deadline is tonight.

Over 95% of Utah voters rely on mail-in ballots, making destroyed ballots critical loss.

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 23 research stations in more than a dozen states as part of an organizational overhaul under President Donald Trump.

A federal judge has refused to block the Trump administration from giving SpaceX more than 700 acres of wildlife refuge as part of a land swap in Texas

The Forest Service is proposing to allow motorized vehicles on all trails, two-tracks, and roads unless it explicitly designates otherwise.

A proposed four million square foot data center and natural gas power plant could be built on public land just southeast of Boise, earning push back from a prominent environmental advocacy group.

A wildlife mitigation system made up of North America's largest wildlife overpass, five wildlife underpasses, and fencing to guide animals to the crossings has led to a 91% decrease in wildlife collis...

Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.

The latest was supposed to be a solar project. Now, in a “bait and switch,” it’s set to power AI

The Nature Conservancy says the acquisition will help better connect 22,000 acres of protected land throughout the Panhandle.

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

An abnormally hot summer following record snow drought has melted one Colorado’s most iconic natural landmarks.