Trump administration rescission would open 44 million acres of public lands and waters to road building and industrial logging

“The people in the administration who entertained an idea other than ‘No thank you’ should be fired,” said a Jackson area politician

After some administrative and logistical steps, “ground-disturbing work will begin,” Homeland Security says in a court notice.

Interior Department orders BLM officials to identify public lands for AI data centers, while USGS publishes its own analysis of AI energy infrastructure on public lands.

Interior Department says it “disapproved a number of partnership agreements with groups actively working against the best interests of the American people and the priorities of this administration.”

“The Trump administration’s decision to force more than 900 bison off federal land was illegal and politically motivated,” said Earthjustice, who filed the lawsuit

“My hope for the environment, for all things living and all things good, just nature in general, is that we should pay more attention to how we’re treating our mountains, how we’re treating our world”

Allowing more roads and more motor vehicles is aimed at one thing: more logging

Stegner’s now-iconic letter was also a public comment, urging officials to protect wild places from road building and development

Trump administration rescission would open 44 million acres of public lands and waters to road building and industrial logging

New images and video footage show the beginning of the end of the Big Bend National Park experience that we've known and cherished for 80+ years

Contractors are grading roads and surveying the Rio Grande corridor even as lawmakers, outfitters, and residents plead for basic answers about a $1.7 billion border barrier project

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule revision would drain thousands of tiny-but-vital wetlands across the northern Great Plains

Data center project in Nevada "is substantially the same" as a previously proposed solar farm, Trump administration claims

Georgia's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge protects the largest and most intact precipitation-based freshwater wetland ecosystem in the United States

Speak up to prevent destructive oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a World Heritage Site

A second public comment period has opened. It's different from before. Here's how to take action with the best chance of making a difference.

Interior Department issued two new rules, weakening protections for threatened species and critical habitat

Two presidential proclamations erase almost 3 million acres of national monument land in Utah

Every single move concerning public lands and waters made by the second Trump administration has been guided by Project 2025.

On July 12, 1995, the once-critically-endangered bald eagle's protected status was downgraded from “endangered” to “threatened,” a first hopeful sign that the species was recovering

Happy 4th of July and 250th Independence Day!

Plus, the National Park Service hides information on visitor deaths, and Lake Mead loses its dive team due to staffing shortages

In the cool Montana morning of August 6, 1896, an adventurous Army corps slipped its way out of Fort Missoula—not on horseback, but on two wheels—on bicycles.

"As America approaches its 250th anniversary, there's no better way to honor this milestone than by investing in the places that protect and tell our shared history." - Emily Douce, NPCA's Acting Vice President of Government Affairs

Mike Lee turns previously bipartisan "Wildfire Prevention Act" into a Republican "Trojan horse" to undo roadless protections in national forests

For the first time in U.S. history, the federal government cancels all environmental laws in a national park

As U.S. soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, women back home worked around the clock in factories, while national parks served as places of rest and healing

Despite the administration's "drill, baby, drill" policies, not a single major oil and gas company showed any interest in drilling in America's largest and greatest wildlife refuge

Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service redefine grizzly habitat standards in Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest

On June 3, 1924, at the initiative of conservation pioneer Aldo Leopold, the U.S. Forest Service created the Gila Wilderness, the first of its kind in the world

New analysis reveals that the Park Service is spending national park visitor fees on fountains and the reflecting pool in Washington, D.C.

The "Arc de Trump" would be built on public land and sever the symbolic sightline between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery

On May 23, 1908, Congress and President Teddy Roosevelt created the National Bison Range, the first time tax dollars were used to buy land specifically to conserve wildlife

Democratic Reps. Neguse and Huffman introduce bill to ban reductions-in-force through Fiscal Year 2030

Former Big Bend superintendents urge Homeland Security Secretary Mullin to not waive environmental and conservation laws in the park

Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon, Bears Ears, Cascade-Siskiyou, Grand Staircase-Escalante, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks,... all are more at risk now than they've ever been

DHS awards $1.7 billion to Albuquerque-based industrial construction company for "border wall in Big Bend Texas, segment identified as BBT-4"

Secretary Mullin fast-tracks construction of vehicle barriers and roads in Big Bend

Massive bipartisan blowback cancels national park border wall, but grave concerns about destructive and intrusive infrastructure remain

These timelines we're living through are absolutely wild

Second Trump administration abandons first Trump administration's bison conservation policies, plus mourning a true bison conservationist

USFS has fallen far behind on wildfire prevention as potentially severe fire season starts

An incredible 62% of the entire United States is now officially in drought

This happened in the same week "Selloff Steve" Pearce inched closer to becoming the BLM Director

As the Park Service remains without a director, the Bureau of Land Management is about to be led be a vehemently anti-public-lands figure

PEER FOIA Requests Seek to Determine Whether Environmental Laws Are Being Bypassed Under Sweeping Emergency Designation

TotalEnergies, BlackRock, and Golden State Wind will spend the money on oil and gas development instead

123 years ago—in April and May 1903—President Theodore Roosevelt went on a now-unimaginable nine-week 25-state trip to talk about national unity and conservation