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Trump Administration Wants to Hold World’s First Deep-Sea Mining Lease Sale

If the sale moves forward, mining activities could begin in federal waters near American Samoa. The proposed site is directly adjacent to a national wildlife refuge.

By Teresa Tomassoni

Will Trump’s Handoff of Grizzly Management to States Lead to More Dead Bears?

By Steven Rodas

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

By Wyatt Myskow

Arizona Regulators Are Raising Contaminant Limits for a Uranium Mine With an Arsenic Problem

By Wyatt Myskow, Maya McDaniel

Feds Grant Final Approval for Arizona Mine Situated in Critical Habitat for Jaguars and Mexican Spotted Owls

By Wyatt Myskow

Interim Fish and Wildlife Assistant Secretary’s Lack of Experience Concerns Senators at Confirmation Hearings

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

Utah National Monument Survives Attempt to Rescind its Management Plan

By Wyatt Myskow

New BLM Grazing Rules Eliminate Tribal Buffalo From Public Lands

By Blaine Harden

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

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

By Blaine Harden

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

By Wyatt Myskow

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis speaks at the annual state wildfire outlook briefing in Broomfield, Colo., on April 30. Credit: Drew Cavin/Colorado College Journalism Institute

Colorado Warns of Severe Fire Risk in Southwestern States. It May be Difficult to Share Resources.

By Colorado College Journalism Institute

Tribe and Environmentalists to Sue Feds Over Arizona Mine’s Impacts to Threatened Owls

By Wyatt Myskow

Could Changes to the U.S. Forest Service Erase a Century of Historical Documents?

By Keerti Gopal

Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands

By Blaine Harden

Forest Service Shake-Up Comes as Risky Wildfire Season Looms

By Marianne Lavelle

USDA Says It Needs Roads to Fight Remote Wildfires, but a New Study Says Roads Bring More Fire to Forests

By Zoë Rom

Courts’ Fight Over ‘Cop City’ Protests Raises Questions About Terrorism Laws and Environmental Activism

By Jade Yeban

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