In relatively dry southern Colorado, they also provide a secondary round of water storage. The first round is Colorado’s snowpack, which, as it melts, feeds groundwater that fens’ spongy peat captures ...

The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30.

Every fall and winter, elk meander their way down from Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Mountains and congregate in the Silver Valley ...

Finalized in November 2024 after years of debate and litigation, the Miles City plan is one of the nation’s largest, ...

After oil companies go bust, the state is left paying to clean up abandoned wells, tanks, machinery and sludge pits.

Luis recalls his father helping neighbors or driving for hours to Raton to ask the school board to send a teacher to the community. An unofficial alcalde, his father negotiated for rural road repairs ...

In late August, Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove shifted the balance a little more toward conservation: He announced that the state would conserve 77,000 additional acres of its ...

This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit news organization, and is part of a special project on Food and Power in the West.

In her new book, Michelle Gurule reveals her experience as a sugar baby and just how little has changed about the industry in the last century.

It was a remarkable step following repeated failures by the government to uphold the tribal fishing rights it swore in treaties to preserve. The agreement is now just another of those broken promises.

Everyone had a job. The men and boys drove the boats upriver to dip the nets in the river and seine. The women waited. Never wondering. There were always enough. The salmon that filled the boats when ...

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of federal public land. This story was published in partnership with Public Domain.