Government-issued maps offer a promise for safely exploring our public lands, but they no longer reflect the reality of ...

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to ...

The U.S. Senate passed a limited spending package on Thursday that will largely fund several science- and land-related ...

In its first year, the second Trump administration has rolled back protections across a swath of high-profile public lands in Alaska.

A year after the Eaton Fire, the recovery maps a familiar inequity. Research from UCLA shows Black homeowners were not just ...

It was early March 2025. The last embers of the Palisades Fire had been out for a month. It was cold, gray and drizzling. A ...

Recent studies found that attitudes toward wolves became more polarized when people’s political identities were activated.

If you’ve seen the phrase time immemorial used repeatedly in Indigenous affairs reporting, there are some compelling reasons why.

The federal government allows livestock grazing across an area of publicly owned land more than twice the size of California, making ranching the largest land use in the West. Billions of dollars of ...

An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics.

We each are shaped by the things around us, our parents, education and the journeys we take. And it is geology that perhaps has shaped me the most, growing up in a place with rocks the size of ...

With support from the BAND Foundation, High Country News is telling the broader story of conservation in the Western U.S. — a story that crosses property lines, unites communities and connects humans ...