The federal government is rewriting its rules governing ranching on public lands to increase the number of cattle, sheep and other livestock grazing on 155 million acres in the West, an area twice the ...

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The largest tidal restoration project in the Sacramento Delta’s history awaits the return of the threatened Delta smelt.

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Documents show the Oklahoma governor’s connections to the tribe may have originated in an act of fraud more than 100 years ago. In a statement to a local television station the day after our story ...

On Tuesday, for the first time in U.S. history, the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to consider co-managing federal lands with Indigenous tribes. Such a collaborative arrangement ...

Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada is one of the most remote and least visited of our national parks, with Wheeler Peak as its central feature at 13,063 feet. On the mountain’s flanks are ...

That was one of the inspirations behind the Western Environmental Reporting Collaborative (WERC), a partnership with the national nonprofit Report for America and local news organizations across the ...

This story is the final chapter of a series focusing on how Missoula and its surrounding communities are grappling with challenges of sustainable growth. (If you haven’t yet, check out the first of ...

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The essential insight of road ecology is this: Roads warp the earth in every way and at every scale, from the polluted soils that line their shoulders to the skies they besmog. They taint rivers, ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Sign up for Dispatches to get their stories in your inbox every week. Chris Casad ...