The 30 tribal nations in the watershed — the river’s most senior water users — were deliberately excluded from the Colorado River Compact negotiations, a blatant attack on tribal sovereignty. In doing ...

Two former, high-ranking Interior Department employees, from opposing political parties, call for an overhaul of public-land management.

This story was co-published with Public Domain. President Donald Trump’s controversial pick to head the Bureau of Land Management, Steve Pearce, offered contradictory explanations about his record of ...

President Donald Trump’s Interior Department is withholding key ethics disclosure information for Karen Budd-Falen, a ...

As the climate changes, ski resorts have begun relying more on machine-made snow, which comes with environmental consequences and limitations.

Trails once quiet, save for the sinuous whoosh of a lone ski line, are suddenly dotted with fresh tracks. Backcountry skiing — long a niche pursuit of hardcore alpinists and telemark nostalgists — has ...

Beth Harrington’s 2025 documentary Our Mr. Matsura uses communally-held memory and traditional research to explore the little-known story of a Japanese photographer who documented the changing world ...

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The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America’s climate policies on Feb. 12, when it moved to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding – a formal determination that six ...

In 2025, the state of California helped fund at least four initiatives to return land to tribes, adding up to thousands of acres.

Columnist Miles Griffis reflects on the history of queer country dance and its importance to the gay community at a two-step lesson.