This Backdoor Legislative Tool Could Unravel Public Lands How the Congressional Review Act is being used to erase protections for America’s shared lands and waters By Lindsey Botts February 6, 2026 In this story: federal policy, monuments, conservation, public lands, wildlands
Conservation Leaders Unite to Oppose Steve Pearce BLM Nomination The Trump pick to lead the land management agency has ties to anti-government extremists By Ian Rose November 19, 2025 In this story: public lands, wildlands, land use, Trump
Public Lands Sales on the Table as Congress Looks for Ways to Raise Revenue Americans could be locked out of thousands of acres of public lands if this proposal is signed into law By Lindsey Botts May 8, 2025 In this story: public lands, saving wild places, wilderness, federal policy, wildlands
Antelope Island, Utah Camouflaged beauty in the water-ringed desert May 1, 2010 In this story: wildlands
Fires Creek Basin, North Carolina Be like a bear By Wally Smith September 1, 2009 In this story: wildlands
The Great Alaska Coal Rush Wilderness lovers have fought for decades to protect the moose, salmon, and sublime vistas of America's "last frontier" from the ravages of oil development. Now America's coal companies want to leave their earth-scraping marks across the state. July 1, 2009 In this story: wildlands, coal, dirty fuels
30-Hour Valley Will the Forest Service trade away New Mexico's glorious Valle Vidal for 30 hours of natural gas? By Paul Rauber March 1, 2005 In this story: wildlands, dirty fuels
Prairie Islands By the banks of the Missouri River, Pleistocene winds sculpted a landscape unmatched in America March 1, 2005 In this story: wildlands
Wild & Whitewashed Cutting through the myths in search of Lewis and Clark's America By Daniel Duane November 1, 2004 In this story: wilderness, wildlands
Cabinet Mountains Wilderness In the Rockies’ Wild Heart By Rick Bass March 1, 2004 In this story: public lands, wilderness, wildlands