ICN West Coast

How the Trump Budget Cuts Are Playing Out at Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park

The restrooms may be clean (for now), but a former administrator sees an erasure of history and scientific research and situations that may pose a “direct hazard to the general public.”

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

As California’s Emissions Rules Faces Court Battles, States Scramble To Save Their Climate Goals

By Rambo Talabong

The Estate of a Woman Who Died in the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome Sues Big Oil for Wrongful Death

By Dana Drugmand

Climate Change Is Helping Heartworm Spread to Pets in the Mountain West

By Tina Deines

Amid Questions of Loyalty to Trump, a Longtime Oil and Gas Advocate Withdraws as Nominee to Lead BLM

By Jake Bolster

As Americans Protest Attacks on Public Lands, Trump Signals National Monuments May be Shrunk or Eliminated

By Wyatt Myskow

Portland’s Urban Tree Plans May Face a Withering in Federal Funds

By Anna McNulty

The Dichotomy of a Deadly Paradise—How Urban Sprawl and Climate Change Fuel LA’s  Fires

By Jireh Deng

The Year in Climate: Record Heat, an Election, a Push for Justice and Reasons for Hope

By Dan Gearino, ICN Staff

Rise in Avian Flu Cases Amplifies Concerns About Consolidation in Agriculture

By Georgina Gustin

A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights

By Katie Surma

Climate Initiatives Fare Well Across the Country Despite National Political Climate

By Lee Hedgepeth, Kristoffer Tigue, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Martha Pskowski, Wyatt Myskow

‘Legacy’ Forests. ‘Restoration’ Logging. The New Jargon of Conservation Is Awash in Ambiguity. And Politics

By Nathan Gilles, Columbia Insight

Can the ‘Magic’ and ‘Angels’ That Make Long Trails Mystical for Hikers Also Conjure Solutions to Environmental Challenges?

By Bing Lin

Water Issues Confronting Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail Trickle Down Into the Rest of California

By Bing Lin

A Path Through Scorched Earth Teaches How a Fire Deficit Helped Fuel California’s Conflagrations

By Bing Lin

First Snow, then Heat Interrupt a Hike From Mexico to Canada, as Climate Complicates an Iconic Adventure

By Bing Lin

San Francisco Ferry Fleet Gets New Emissions-Free Addition

By Ruchi Shahagadkar

California Still Has No Plan to Phase Out Oil Refineries

By Liza Gross