The Interior Secretary says public lands are America's balance sheet. So we graded him as the asset manager.

Virtual-fence collars are letting ranchers move cattle across public land from their phones. Is this the future of sustainable grazing in the West?

Two new hunting and fishing executive orders provide welcome red meat to sportsmen, while the Endangered Species Act suffers another cut.

It's getting busy in the Thorofare, the farthest spot from a road in the Lower 48. A family dodges fishermen and horsepackers in search of Yellowstone trout.

That time an autonomous AI agent offered to verify RE:PUBLIC's reporting.

From a river in North Carolina to a campground in Washington, ICE raids have found a foothold in the national forests.

The House Natural Resources Committee keeps finding new reasons to investigate the same environmental organizations — without ever finishing an investigation.

In the wake of this week's tragedies, the Grand Canyon grapples with an epic water problem. PLUS: Was a Super El Niño to blame?

How a state trapped by its own history became Congress’ most aggressive threat to public lands—and suddenly out of step with a changing conservative West.

What New Rules for a Shrinking Colorado River Mean for Tribal Nations

Yosemite traffic made headlines this summer, but the longer-term story about national parks involves new patterns of "facade management" and institutional neglect

Why I Walked the Appalachian Trail Twice—30 Years Apart

A new book about the Supreme Court and national parks captures a history of judicial influence that has fostered the protection of public lands. Can we count on that to continue?

As RE:PUBLIC celebrates its first birthday, we're asking for feedback from you. We're only as strong as the work we do, and your input is critical.

Five years ago, Native governance of public lands seemed possible. Now it's being systematically dismantled in the name of energy dominance.

Five years ago, Native governance of public lands seemed possible. Now it's being systematically dismantled in the name of energy dominance.

The administration wants to gut funding for our already strapped wildlife refuges. Big Oaks, a threatened preserve in southeastern Indiana, would just be the most visible current casualty.

First impressions from a week in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—19 million acres, no roads, and almost no way to comprehend it until you're there.

As Americans celebrate Independence Day, fires blaze across the country, with terrible costs for wildland firefighters. Plus: we follow up with three men walking the 211-mile length of Alaska's propos...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has been the loudest booster of the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. And T.R.’s conservation legacy? Not so much.

With federal guidelines expiring and reservoirs near record lows, a veteran attorney explains how seven states might—or might not—divide what's left.

With federal guidelines expiring and reservoirs near record lows, a veteran attorney explains how seven states might—or might not—divide what's left.

In deep-red Idaho and Wyoming, a new breed of single-issue political action committee is turning a bipartisan cause into primary-season firepower.

Colorado's biggest oil and gas lease sale in fifteen years moved 134,000 acres of public land. And most of it went for the lowest price the law allows.

As the Department of Homeland Security waives endangered species protections to fast-track border wall construction, an elusive population of ocelots risks being caught inside.

Montana Republican Tim Sheehy tried to cut aviation inspections on wildfire planes the same month his former company failed one.

This month's lease sales in Alaska are the latest in a long line of extraction pushes that have generated more politics than oil.

We start with our water.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has been the loudest booster of the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. And T.R.’s conservation legacy? Not so much.

The administration wants to "streamline" environmental review for oil and gas drilling in Alaska. We've seen this movie before.

An industry trade group petitioned Interior to streamline fossil-fuel permits in the Western Arctic. The official handling that petition is the group's former CEO.

How one of Montana's most beloved mountain ranges became ground zero for the battle over America's public lands

As rising seas swallow Louisiana's marshes, oil companies are fighting to keep control of the water replacing their land—and turning fishermen into criminals.

Affordability and journalism both require radical—and rewarding—new models of community.

Every winter, tens of thousands of Americans migrate to public lands in the Arizona desert. For a growing number, it's not a vacation—it’s the only housing they can afford.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's words—and the administration's actions over the last 15 months—have left little doubt about their plans for our national parks.

In the week that Interior's clean energy policy unraveled, Doug Burgum's own words—past and present—told the story.

America’s public lands are facing more threats now than ever, but most newsrooms are too strapped to dedicate the resources that this beat deserves. Re:Public is on a mission to change that. Hailey Mo...

It has the most acres and the least funding per user of any of the Department of Interior agencies. So why is Secretary Doug Burgum aiming to gut its budget?

Or: How Washington sells America's public lands to foreign corporations and calls it patriotism.

Last March, the Trump administration announced aninitiative to build affordable housing on federal property. And then it went quiet. Is this an innovative idea—or an ongoing attempt at a public lands ...

On despair, disengagement, and why staying in the fight is the only answer

How a dubious emergency timber directive is fast-tracking logging into 25 million acres of protected wilderness

Award-winning travel writer Stephanie Pearson explains the top 10 federal public lands in the USA (out of the 640 million acres that we co-own with wild animals) that are most in need of our protectio...

For our new series “My Public Lands,” we want to explore why your slice of public land matters. What do you do there? What are your first memories on public lands? Who taught you to love them?

From Oregon's old-growth forests to Alaska's oil fields, the administration has a plan for public lands. Recreation isn't in it.

Record drought and vanishing snowpack are testing a federal firefighting force in the middle of an unfinished reorganization.