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Public Lands

The Sage Grouse Could Face More Development in Its Critical Habitat Under Trump

In Wyoming, environmentalists took to the sky this month to warn of impending changes to some of the best sage grouse habitat in the world.

By Jake Bolster

Streams turn the Red Desert of Wyoming green, and provide habitat for wildlife from elk to pronghorn to sage grouse. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News
A roadless area featuring a peak of the Santa Ana mountains is seen within the Cleveland National Forest. Credit: EcoFlight

Proposal to Undo Roadless Rule Would Open Some of Southern California’s Last Wild Forests to Development

By Wyatt Myskow

Susanne Brown, from Bellingham, Wash., looks at a sign that reads, “This Facility is Closed Due to the Federal Government Shutdown,” on the door to an Everglades National Park visitor center on Wednesday in Florida. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

National Parks Are Staying Open During the Government Shutdown, Putting Visitors and Resources at Risk

By Wyatt Myskow

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

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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

Resolution Copper’s proposed mine near the site of Oak Flat in Arizona will eventually create a giant sinkhole on land sacred to the Western Apache people. Credit: Elias Butler

Court Temporarily Halts Land Transfer That Would Allow a Mine to Destroy Western Apache Sacred Land

By Wyatt Myskow

Bureau of Land Management employees check on an oil and gas development site on public land in Colorado. Credit: BLM Colorado

BLM Calls New Oil and Gas Rules ‘Noncontroversial,’ Exempts Them From Public Comment

By Jake Bolster

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

The south and west reaches of Lonesome Lake are visibly shallow in this July 2025 photo taken while descending from Jackass Pass. Long reputed to have quality issues related to human waste, the Shoshone National Forest lake is being examined for an E. coli impairment after regulators initially detected fecal bacteria levels several hundred times more than is believed to be safe. Credit: Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile

Wyoming’s Crowded Lonesome Lake Tops EPA’s National Survey for Fecal Contamination

By Mike Koshmrl, WyoFile

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (center) is congratulated by his fellow Republicans after signing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Set to Slash Through U.S. Climate and Justice Drive

By Marianne Lavelle, Aidan Hughes, Amy Green, Arcelia Martin, Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, Jake Bolster, Wyatt Myskow

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

Pumpjacks operate on public land leased to oil and gas developers in Wyoming. Credit: BLM Wyoming

USGS Touts Potential Oil and Gas Resources Beneath Public Lands in Updated Survey

By Jake Bolster

The image shows forested land in fall colors in Utah

How Did the Housing Crisis Revitalize Efforts by Western Republicans to Sell Off Public Lands?

By Zoë Rom

Hikers move through Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

Department of Justice Gives Trump Go-Ahead to Eliminate National Monuments

By Wyatt Myskow

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