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New BLM Grazing Rules Eliminate Tribal Buffalo From Public Lands

Tribes with bison herds are seeking negotiations with U.S. Department of Interior officials to ask for an exemption from new rules they have called “DEI for cattle.”

By Blaine Harden

Bison graze at the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative in Wyoming. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News
Hikers walk along a trail in Montana’s Custer Gallatin National Forest. Credit: Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service

Logging Project Near Yellowstone Could Threaten Wildlife Habitat and Tourist-Dependent Businesses

By Mosabber Hossain

Fifth-generation Montanan Brad Wilson stands beside a dirt road that leads to a century-old public trail that was abandoned by the U.S. Forest Service as part of a controversial land swap with the Yellowstone Club—an exclusive mountaintop retreat for the megarich. Credit: Evan Simon/Floodlight

Trump Officials, Billionaires and the Quiet Reshaping of America’s Public Lands

By Evan Simon and Ames Alexander, Floodlight

Bison graze on American Prairie land in Montana. Credit: Amy Toensing/Getty Images

Trump Administration Bans a Nonprofit’s Bison From Grazing on Federal Lands, but Spares Tribes

By Blaine Harden

Jeff Mow, the former superintendent of Glacier National Park, says privatizing national parks would limit access. “They would become national parks for those that can afford it, as opposed to all Americans.” Credit: Tami A. Heilemann/DOI

States and Nonprofits Are Helping National Parks Run During the Shutdown. Could Their Efforts Backfire?

By Jake Bolster

Then-Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) speaks during an event at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian on May 24, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Conservation Groups Blast Trump’s Latest Choice to Head Up the Bureau of Land Management

By Kiley Price

A coal mine operates on leased public land in Colorado. Credit: BLM Colorado

Citing ‘AI Arms Race,’ Trump Administration Announces Efforts to Rekindle US Coal Industry

By Jake Bolster

A surface coal mine in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Credit: BLM Wyoming

Bureau of Land Management to Sell Off Federal Coal Reserve Leases in Wyoming

By Arcelia Martin, Jake Bolster

A Tumultuous Moment for Public Lands and All Who Rely on Them

ICN Sunday Morning

The Dark Star Mine Pit of the proposed South Railroad Mine, if approved and built, would be dug into this area. Credit: Great Basin Resource Watch

One of the First to Benefit From Trump’s Cuts to Environmental Review: a Nevada Gold Mine

By Wyatt Myskow

The Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River runs through federal land near the White Mountains National Recreation Area in Alaska. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

House Republicans’ Use of Little-Known Law to Strike Down Public Land Plans Could Be Pandora’s Box Moment

By Zoë Rom

An oil and gas operation on leased public land in Kerns County, California. Credit: John Ciccarelli/BLM

Trump Administration Moves to Dismantle Conservation as an Official Use of Public Lands

By Anika Jane Beamer

A bank of coal is seen in front of the Naughton coal-fired power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

House Republicans Push New Coal Bills, but Critics Say the Industry’s Decline Can’t Be Reversed

By Carl David Goette-Luciak

Fuels management specialists for the Chequamegon-Nicolet Nation Forest move a downed tree to open a path for vehicles on May 29 in Wisconsin. Credit: Eric A. Britton/USDA Forest Service

Potential Repeal of Roadless Rule Could Permanently Damage Midwest National Forests

By Sarah Mattalian

Protesters gather outside of the Western Governors’ Association annual meeting to protest threats to the nation’s public lands on June 23 in Santa Fe, N.M. Credit: New Mexico Wild

Huge Public Land Sale Stripped from Senate Bill—For Now—But Assault on Federal Land Protections Continues

By Wyatt Myskow

An aerial view of the Yellow Pine project near Pahrump, Nev. Credit: Patrick Donnelly

How the Renewable Energy Boom Is Remaking the American West

By Jimmy Tobias

The state of Utah believes it should be given Bureau of Land Management lands, including the San Rafael Swell. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

Utah’s Quixotic Bid To Wrest Millions Of Acres From The Federal Government

By Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler

The Rosemont Copper Company operates in the Santa Rita mountains, located in southeast Arizona. Credit: Esther Frances/Inside Climate News

Congress Pushes Forward With Bill Expanding the Rights of Mining Companies on Federal Land

By Esther Frances, Megija Medne and Phillip Powell

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