Criminal Ranchers Shouldn’t Get a Free Pass on Public Lands Why is the BLM renewing grazing leases for the Hammond family? By Christopher Ketcham January 11, 2021 In this story: public lands
The Utah Monolith Is Just the Latest Tale of Desert Trash One Utahn’s take on the unsettling patterns behind the monoliths By Riley Black December 19, 2020 In this story: public lands
Time to Indigenize Lands and Water Conservation Native American activists are leading a push to embed traditional ecological knowledge in land management decisions By Melissa K. Nelson December 22, 2020 In this story: bright futures, public lands, indigenous communities
I Know I'm Not Seeing Everything As I Stare Into the Brush Out here, there's no clear delineation between predator and prey By Darby Minow Smith October 31, 2020 In this story: wilderness
Meet Young People Shirking College to Volunteer on Wild Lands Could the pandemic normalize the gap year—and help save public lands? By Allie Conti September 28, 2020 In this story: cool schools, education, public lands
What Makes a Firenado? There’s a lot to learn about the fiery twisters By Molly Glick August 25, 2020 In this story: science, national forests, state parks, state forests
The Desert Refuge Is Sacred. Don’t Bomb It. The air force wants to expand bombing By The Las Vegas Band of Paiutes Tribal Council August 20, 2020 In this story: public lands
You’re No Public Lands Hero If You Can’t Pronounce Yosemite Trump’s botched Great American Outdoors Act signing proved he’s a phony By Jason Mark August 6, 2020 In this story: politics, national parks
How Are We Going to Fight Wildfires and COVID-19? Short answer: We’re still figuring it out. By Krista Karlson July 27, 2020 In this story: wildfire, wilderness, politics, state forests, coronavirus
The Pandemic and the National Parks It’s anything but a typical summer in the parks By Megan Hill July 7, 2020 In this story: national parks, coronavirus