If you have climbed a peak or hiked in a golden aspen forest, paddled a protected river or visited a cultural site on any of the hundreds of millions of acres of public national forest land, there’s a ...

A program that pays rice farmers to create wetland habitats is a rare conservation win.

Paul Kiefer is a freelance journalist and was born and raised in Washington. He has covered homelessness among poultry workers in rural Delaware, addiction medicine and incarceration in the Pacific ...

This year marks the centennial of the Indian Citizenship Act, which theoretically gave Native people the right to vote in U.S ...

Note: All visuals by Evan Benally Atwood. Story and voiceover by B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster. It’s mid-September, when Portland transitions from cutoff T-shirt season to cozy hoodie weather. The nights are ...

The reservoirs were under threat, and had been for decades.

Ten years ago, hundreds of people gathered in a dusty wash underneath a freeway overpass 80 miles east of Las Vegas, near the town of Bunkerville, Nevada. They arrived at the behest of a reedy ...

This month, we look at the upcoming elections from a Western viewpoint. Some Latino organizers in Washington are working on ...

Madhvi Chittoor has had a hectic summer. For months, the 13-year-old has attended hearings, reviewed environmental assessments and emailed government officials. She wants to stop Civitas, a Denver ...

Meredith Lawrence is an arts and culture writer and photographer. Her work has appeared in Paste, No Depression, GRAMMY.com, American Theatre Mag, Vox, Brooklyn Mag, Craftsmanship Mag, Alta Journal ...

“Resiliency is traditionally defined as the ability to recover from some manner of ecological disturbance in some time frame. But that’s not what ecosystems do,” Kaufmann says. “Say a forest fire ...