Time and travel are the biggest barriers. Bourne’s a Fallon Paiute-Shoshone member, but he lives in Lovelock, so seeing a physician in Fallon is a two-hour round trip. So when Bourne, who hadn’t been ...

The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change.

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of ...

Days after the workplace immigration raids that first sparked protests in Los Angeles, families still had no contact with ...

The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

Antiquities Act gave presidents the power to protect objects on public lands. A Justice Dept. memo said the Act also ”carries with it the power to revoke.” ...

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New Mexico’s legislators are eager to repurpose “produced water,” but environmental organizations say that there is no safe way to do that.

The data show that stations serving rural and Indigenous audiences in the West would be the hardest hit. Here’s why, by the numbers. CPB is an independent nonprofit created by Congress nearly 60 ...

The Little Finland area of Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada. A budget amendment in Nevada would pave the way for the development of public land near the monument. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM Stay ...

Species definitions become even more complicated when individuals from two such “distinct population segments” interbreed and produce hybrids.