A cattle rancher reflects on her occupation and the growing movement to understand how other animals see the world.

High Country News and Report for America are seeking local and statewide newsrooms to build an environmental reporting network for the Western U.S. We’re calling this partnership the Western ...

With the federal government in a shutdown, the Forest Service has paused much of the wildfire preparation and prevention work it does on its 193 million acres of national forest.

Tribal college and university leaders lean on their resiliency and cultural values in the face of federal funding unknowns.

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ASSAILED wind since his first day in office, when he signed an executive order declaring a moratorium on permits, new leases and lease renewals for all wind projects. In response, ...

Median noise levels will nearly quadruple across the pan-Arctic by 2030, relative to levels measured in 2019, according to a report produced by the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment and the ...

The government might be shut down, but national parks, forests and other public lands generally remain open. And being able to go outside — whether you want to hike, hunt elk or deer, camp or just ...

Months later, pieces of that coalition continued to hold together. But not all of it, said Land Tawney, co-chair of American Hunters and Anglers, citing the administration’s recent attempts to ...

HOOD LEARNED HOW TO MAKE BOWS in his late teens, teaching at a survival school where a co-worker led bow-making clinics. Hood welcomed the chance to learn a new skill, but the work didn’t satisfy him ...

Participants found simple, reader-friendly signs to be the most persuasive. Graphics that illustrated good behavior also swayed viewers: They liked the visual separation between cars and bears in ...

Everyone’s vision of Kirk — “Charlie,” everyone called him, as if he had been their best friend — seemed to come from their own reflections in a funhouse mirror. “He showed me I needed to be a better ...

Many parks will stay open, and oil and gas permitting will continue — even as tens of thousands of staff are furloughed at NPS, BLM and USFS.