The rule sought to elevate conservation’s status as a valid public land use, but Trump’s Interior Secretary stressed the ...

Billions in halted or canceled grants, gutted local offices, market turmoil and broken trust are at stake across the West.

The cougar was euthanized, and his tissue samples, which were tested for a number of diseases, revealed the presence of the ...

The Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists, a Tucson nonprofit, made a video about nurse trees — native ones like mesquites, ...

Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist, leads a coalition that’s quietly organizing a county-level rejection of the Antiquities Act.

Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist, leads a coalition that’s quietly organizing a county-level rejection of the Antiquities Act. Forest Service stock animals are indispensable ...

Molly Montgomery is a freelance writer from Santa Fe. She covered Rio Arriba County and agricultural issues at the Rio Grande Sun in Española, where she received a New Mexico Press Association award ...

U.S. Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in the West. Trump’s radical upheaval is accelerating the death of a dying art.

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