National monuments across the West face unprecedented threats, making public voices and vigilance more crucial than ever.

Josh Jackson is a writer and photographer whose work explores the overlooked public lands of the West. He shares weekly dispatches on these landscapes through his Forgotten Lands Substack, weaving ...

In the weeks leading up to the shutdown, tribal nations hefted their political and economic capital to protect services for ...

Median noise levels will nearly quadruple across the pan-Arctic by 2030, relative to levels measured in 2019, according to a ...

With the federal government in a shutdown, the Forest Service has paused much of the wildfire preparation and prevention work ...

Tribal college and university leaders lean on their resiliency and cultural values in the face of federal funding unknowns.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ASSAILED wind since his first day in office, when he signed an executive order declaring a moratorium on ...

Months later, pieces of that coalition continued to hold together. But not all of it, said Land Tawney, co-chair of American ...

HOOD LEARNED HOW TO MAKE BOWS in his late teens, teaching at a survival school where a co-worker led bow-making clinics. Hood welcomed the chance to learn a new skill, but the work didn’t satisfy him ...

The government might be shut down, but national parks, forests and other public lands generally remain open. And being able ...

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Participants found simple, reader-friendly signs to be the most persuasive. Graphics that illustrated good behavior also ...