President Donald Trump’s Interior Department is withholding key ethics disclosure information for Karen Budd-Falen, a ...

The 30 tribal nations in the watershed — the river’s most senior water users — were deliberately excluded from the Colorado River Compact negotiations, a blatant attack on tribal sovereignty. In doing ...

Imperiled northern red-legged frogs need to cross a 4-lane highway in Oregon to lay their eggs. Every winter, volunteers carry them across.

As the climate changes, ski resorts have begun relying more on machine-made snow, which comes with environmental consequences and limitations.

This story was co-published with Public Domain. President Donald Trump’s controversial pick to head the Bureau of Land Management, Steve Pearce, offered contradictory explanations about his record of ...

Two former, high-ranking Interior Department employees, from opposing political parties, call for an overhaul of public-land management.

Trails once quiet, save for the sinuous whoosh of a lone ski line, are suddenly dotted with fresh tracks. Backcountry skiing — long a niche pursuit of hardcore alpinists and telemark nostalgists — has ...

Beth Harrington’s 2025 documentary Our Mr. Matsura uses communally-held memory and traditional research to explore the little-known story of a Japanese photographer who documented the changing world ...

House Democrats are demanding an ethics probe into the high-ranking Interior appointee over her financial ties to the massive Thacker Pass lithium mine. “The internal documents in this letter are ...

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In 2025, the state of California helped fund at least four initiatives to return land to tribes, adding up to thousands of acres.