The latest map of Colorado wolf movement, released in November, doesn’t show as much southern activity as October’s. But wolves are almost certain to keep moving toward state borders — especially as ...

Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the controversial Thacker Pass lithium ...

Nearly every part of the Western U.S. is in drought conditions today. As of December, the National Water and Climate Center’s map of snow-water equivalent is colored red, and most places are less than ...

A recent study from the Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance and Development shows how gaming has helped tribes acquire economic and political capital. The report was written by ...

In the wake of DOGE cuts, an all-female ‘Forest Corps’ is filling federal agency gaps for Wyoming trail projects. This story was originally published by WyoFile and is republished here by permission.

A new study found that about 83% of water passing through public lands uses monument designation for its only protection.

Federal law requires agencies to review the environmental impacts of grazing, but government employees allege the system is riddled with loopholes.

This story was originally published at Sierra and is republished here by permission. Jazmyn Vent was a kid when she first learned about the Ambler Road. Vent, who is Koyukon Athabascan and Iñupiaq, ...

One day in September 2018, as Beth Pratt was hiking in California’s Yosemite National Park, she encountered pile after pile of fresh scat along a creek flowing out of Kuna Lake. She knew it was only a ...

Reckoning with History is an ongoing series that seeks to understand the legacies of the past and to put the West’s present moment in perspective. Special Agent J.T. Jardine fights a Wallowa National ...

At the fourth annual Hanford Journey, Yakama Nation youth, elders and scientists share stories about a land that is a part of them. A mother doe, flanked by a fawn still in spots, bounds through belly ...

Though the western spotted skunk is less common and more elusive than the more familiar striped skunk, it’s doing better than its cousin back East, where populations have declined by at least 90% ...