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

This story was produced by RE:PUBLIC Lands Media and is co-published here by permission. Etched into sandstone, between chaparral, and along coastal ridgelines, the trails of California’s Los Padres ...

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 ...

In spring and fall, the mountain forests that stretch from Alaska to California are filled with mushroom hunters, known as “pickers.” Some are hobbyists, but others make a living from tracking down ...

This story was co-published with Public Domain. Karen Budd-Falen, a top official at the Department of Interior, has financial ties to the controversial Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada — a ...

Dangerous landslide-triggered tsunamis linked to receding glaciers — which are shrinking globally due to climate change — are ...

A mountain lion photographed by a trail cam operated by Utah Mountain Lion Conservation. Credit: Courtesy of Utah Mountain Lion Conservation Andy Rice is perhaps the last person you’d expect to care ...

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

This story is produced by the Indigenous Investigative Collective, a project of the Native American Journalists Association in partnership with High Country News, Indian Country Today, National Native ...

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.