Everyone’s vision of Kirk — “Charlie,” everyone called him, as if he had been their best friend — seemed to come from their own reflections in a funhouse mirror. “He showed me I needed to be a better ...

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Tribal college and university leaders lean on their resiliency and cultural values in the face of federal funding unknowns.

Many parks will stay open, and oil and gas permitting will continue — even as tens of thousands of staff are furloughed at ...

The government might be shut down, but national parks, forests and other public lands generally remain open. And being able ...

With the federal government in a shutdown, the Forest Service has paused much of the wildfire preparation and prevention work ...

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ASSAILED wind since his first day in office, when he signed an executive order declaring a moratorium on ...

Median noise levels will nearly quadruple across the pan-Arctic by 2030, relative to levels measured in 2019, according to a ...

The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30.

Every fall and winter, elk meander their way down from Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene Mountains and congregate in the Silver Valley ...

Months later, pieces of that coalition continued to hold together. But not all of it, said Land Tawney, co-chair of American ...

In relatively dry southern Colorado, they also provide a secondary round of water storage. The first round is Colorado’s snowpack, which, as it melts, feeds groundwater that fens’ spongy peat captures ...