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Public Land

Primary Effort ‘Changed the Conversation’ Around Wyoming’s Public Lands

A spate of pro public lands candidates won key primaries across Wyoming, including in the governor’s race. Environmentalists say they look forward to working with new lawmakers.

By Jake Bolster

 A view of Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming. Credit: Avery Locklear/NPS
The Bobcat Draw Badlands Wilderness Study Area in Washakie County, Wyoming, encompasses 17,150 acres of land managed by the federal government. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

Public Lands Are at the Forefront of Wyoming’s Primaries

By Jake Bolster
A pronghorn at the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge in Wyoming. Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS

As Trump Expands Hunting and Fishing Access on Wildlife Refuges, What Will the Impact Be?

By Wyatt Myskow
Trucks operate at a coal mine in Lost Creek, Ky. Credit: Diane Desobeau/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Administration Eyes Massive Coal Reserves Under Federal Lands

By Lisa Sorg
President Donald Trump and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox display executive orders Trump signed to shrink two national monuments in Utah at the Oval Office of the White House on July 13. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Again Shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, This Time by Much More

By Wyatt Myskow
Autumn Gillard has been fighting to protect the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument since 2017. Credit: Raymond Chee

Utah National Monument Survives Attempt to Rescind its Management Plan

By Wyatt Myskow
Bison graze at the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative in Wyoming. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

New BLM Grazing Rules Eliminate Tribal Buffalo From Public Lands

By Blaine Harden
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
The Pinyon Plain uranium mine located within the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni National Monument, a few miles from Grand Canyon National Park, in Tusayan, Ariz. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Trump Administration Kills Rule Putting Conservation of Public Lands on Equal Footing With Resource Extraction

By Wyatt Myskow
A bison herd roams the American Prairie at sunset. Credit: Amy Toensing/Getty Images

Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands

By Blaine Harden
Oil pipelines stretch across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska, where ConocoPhillips operates the Alpine Field. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Trump Administration Auctions Contested Arctic Lands for Oil Drilling

By Nicholas Kusnetz
The burned remains of a timber operation in Molalla, Ore., on Sept. 13, 2020, after the Riverside Fire swept through the area. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

The Fight Over Logging on U.S. Public Lands Isn’t Done Yet

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth
A view of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Credit: Bureau of Land Management

A Little-Used Maneuver Could Mean More Drilling and Mining in Southern Utah’s Redrock Country

By Georgina Gustin
The Rio Grande and the border wall are seen in Brownsville, Texas, on Jan. 15. Credit: Gabriel V. Cardenas/AFP via Getty Images

Rio Grande Valley Advocates Urge Congress to Restore Protections for Public Lands in Path of Border Wall

By Martha Pskowski
The Gifford Fire burns through 30,000 acres in Los Padres National Forest near Santa Maria, Calif., on Aug. 2, 2025. Credit: Benjamin Hanson/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Wildfire Urgency Unites Congress. The ‘Fix Our Forests’ Act Does Not.

By Katie Surma
A patch of the White Mountain National Forest is clear-cut in a logging operation near Stow, Maine. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Decades-Old Rule that Allowed Logging on Vast Swaths of US Land Ruled Unlawful by Oregon Court

By Gloria Dickie
An oilfield operation is seen on leased land managed by the BLM’s Bakersfield office in Kern County, California. Credit: Jesse Pluim/BLM

Will Trump’s Push to Drill on California Public Lands be More Successful This Time Around?

By Blanca Begert

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