In 2024, the National Elk Refuge had 11 full-time employees helping to feed elk and bison, greet 300,000-plus tourists at its visitor center and steward 24,700 scenic acres just north

Trump’s USDA wants to undo the landmark Roadless Area Conservation Rule. That would open about 58.5 million acres of wild, unfragmented national forests to road construction, logging, and other develo...

The administration has weakened protections against both habitat destruction and the killing or trapping of newly threatened species, prompting one conservation expert to call the changes a “death sen...