If you have climbed a peak or hiked in a golden aspen forest, paddled a protected river or visited a cultural site on any of the hundreds of millions of acres of public national forest land, there’s a ...

The reservoirs were under threat, and had been for decades.

This investigation is a collaboration with Grist. On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain ...

A program that pays rice farmers to create wetland habitats is a rare conservation win.

The Yakama Nation is fighting a pumped hydro storage development near Goldendale, Washington – but it’s just one of many.

This month, we look at the upcoming elections from a Western viewpoint. Some Latino organizers in Washington are working on ...

Madhvi Chittoor has had a hectic summer. For months, the 13-year-old has attended hearings, reviewed environmental assessments and emailed government officials. She wants to stop Civitas, a Denver ...

Throughout much of human history, fire has been a source of comfort, warmth — even inspiration. Only when the flames eclipse our control and threaten the things we prize do we hasten to ...

Paul Kiefer is a freelance journalist and was born and raised in Washington. He has covered homelessness among poultry workers in rural Delaware, addiction medicine and incarceration in the Pacific ...

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Ten years ago, hundreds of people gathered in a dusty wash underneath a freeway overpass 80 miles east of Las Vegas, near the town of Bunkerville, Nevada. They arrived at the behest of a reedy ...