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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

In May 1900, a Boise Shoshone leader known as Captain Jim aimed his bow at deer and elk amid the shady pines and firs along a tributary of the Snake River near what is currently Boise, Idaho. Federal ...

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