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Construction is seen at the two mine shafts for South32’s Hermosa project in Patagonia, Ariz., on Feb. 18. Credit: Wyatt Myskow/Inside Climate News

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

By Wyatt Myskow

Kevin Lilly is sworn in for his second term as chairman of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission at the Texas State Capitol in 2023. Credit: Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission

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

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

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

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

A Mexican spotted owl sits on a tree branch. Credit: Shaula Hedwall/USFWS

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

By Wyatt Myskow

Ranger Griffin and Forest Guard Cameron on fire patrol duty in 1909 from the top of Mount Silcox near Thompson Falls, Mont. Credit: W. J. Lubken/Forest Service

Could Changes to the U.S. Forest Service Erase a Century of Historical Documents?

By Keerti Gopal

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

Forest Service Firefighters perform a prescribed burn at Letts Lake near Stonyford, Calif., in the Mendocino National Forest on March 5, 2025. Credit: Susan Knight-Ashley/USDA Forest Service

Forest Service Shake-Up Comes as Risky Wildfire Season Looms

By Marianne Lavelle

The Gifford Fire burns through Los Padres National Forest in California on Aug. 2, 2025. Credit: Benjamin Hanson/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Zoë Rom

Environmental activists reoccupy the Atlanta Forest as it was scheduled to be developed into a police training center on March 4, 2023. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

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

By Jade Yeban

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

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum walks into the West Wing of the White House on March 6 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

After Trump’s Interior Secretary Transferred Thousands of Staff to His Office, Chaos Followed, Former Workers Say

By Jake Bolster, Peter Aldhous

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

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