Albert Sommers, a cattle rancher and former Wyoming speaker of the House, understands DeWitt’s concerns. After Roberts’ actions with the wolf became public in early 2024, he defended Roberts’ ...

SAGUAROS SYMBOLIZE the Sonoran Desert, appearing in classic Western movies and even children’s cartoons. A cactus can grow up ...

Wildfires like this are increasingly affecting water supplies across the U.S. and creating a compounding crisis that experts in water, utilities and emergency management are only beginning to wrestle ...

Around the West, community land trusts are helping people recover from disaster — and prepare for the next one.

The Western Apache and a coalition of environmental groups have fought for years against the Resolution Copper mine, which would become one of the country’s largest at the cost of a site revered by ...

Julie Green painted the last meals served to people sentenced to die in an attempt to humanize capital punishment.

She co-founded a Whatcom County chapter of the Rainbow Coalition. Later, as part of the United Farm Workers of America, she led negotiations to win a union contract for farmworkers at the Chateau Ste.

Faith Kearns is the scientist and director of research communication for the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative at Arizona State University.

Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.

Rebels with a Lost Cause Gale Norton and James Watt Both had stints with Mountain States Legal Foundation, then served as secretaries of Interior, where they pushed for general deregulation ...

At the fourth annual Hanford Journey, Yakama Nation youth, elders and scientists share stories about a land that is a part of them.

This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico and is reproduced here with permission. In the Permian Basin, now the most prolific oil field in the world, hundreds of miles of ...