The latest map of Colorado wolf movement, released in November, doesn’t show as much southern activity as October’s. But ...

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 ...

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, ...

The most widely held and deeply ingrained popular image of Lewis and Clark also happens to be the most serious misconception of their expedition. In that image, they cross North America on their own ...

High Country News started with a simple yet powerful vision. In 1970, Wyoming rancher Tom Bell saw the environmental challenges of the West and decided to take a stand. From a gritty black-and-white ...

On a chilly December morning in northern Arizona, near the town of Page, Nicole Horseherder stood beside a barbed-wire fence, waiting for the smokestacks of the Navajo Generating Station to fall. The ...

The buyers plan to transform 40 acres of fire-scarred land into a sustainable, Indigenous-led farm.

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 ...