For now, the state is counting on voluntary cuts among vegetable and pecan farmers. But that might not be enough.

Eric Parker from central Idaho aims his weapon from a bridge as protesters gather by the Bureau of Land Management’s base camp near Bunkerville, Nevada, in April 2014. Credit: Jim ...

A firefighter moves hazard fuel while working on the Bear Gulch Fire this summer. Many in the wildland fire community believe the leadership team managing the fire sent crews into an ambush by federal ...

Cows grazing at Point Reyes National Seashore at sunset. Karen Budd-Falen has worked on a longstanding dispute over cows at Point Reyes. MThis story was originally published by Public Domain and is ...

Hillary Hoffmann, professor of law at the University of Wyoming and former co-director of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal ...

Among the many dramatic peaks of the West, few mountains stand out like Mount Shasta in the northernmost reaches of California. Shasta erupts from the landscape, a solo peak with no other mountains ...

Utah Rep. Casey Snider spent years quietly carrying out a plan to guarantee hunter access to pristine roadless country — by blocking the Ute Indian Tribe from buying it back.

The federal government is rewriting its rules governing ranching on public lands to increase the number of cattle, sheep and ...

After 20-year controversy and numerous court battles, the Trump administration declared grizzlies recovered despite public ...

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I first read Denis Johnson’s novella Train Dreams outside, leaning against a tree. It was 2019, and my Forest Service trail crew was camped out in a quiet corner of Washington’s Alpine Lakes ...

Renderings of Goldendale pumped hydro project courtesy of Rye Development. Credit: Photo illustration by Luna Anna Archey/High Country News A pumped hydro-energy storage facility proposed outside of ...