The Fighting Has Begun Over Who Owns Land Drowned by Climate Change
One April morning in 2016, Daryl Carpenter, a charter boat captain out of Grand Isle, La., took some clients to catch redfish on a marsh pond …
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Zinke’s Plan to Fund the Park Service Is Pure Fantasy
What Secretary of the Interior is selling no one’s buying. Ryan Zinke’s idea to support public lands with oil and mining leases isn’t just wrongheaded—the …
Making Heads or Tails of Flying Your Drone Over Public Lands
Hoping to fly your drone in a wilderness area or above a wild and scenic river? Where you can or cannot fly a drone when it comes …
The 2018 Conservation in the West Poll
The survey, conducted in eight western states, explores bi-partisan opinions in each state and for the Rocky Mountain West region concerning conservation, environment, energy, the role …
The Far-Right Campaign to Destroy Our National Monuments
Trump’s attack on the two national monuments, after all, wasn’t just a lucky break, a gift that fell from the sky. Rather, it was the …
Trump’s Dismemberment of Bears Ears: Perspective From Indigenous Scholars
President Trump’s visit to Salt Lake City to sign two orders slashing the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments also included a …
Our Shrinking National Monuments
This interactive map shows the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monuments following the President’s announced reductions, so you can zoom in and …
Zinke backs shrinking more national monuments
Ryan Zinke, the gift that keeps on giving. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday called on President Trump to shrink a total of four national …
Trump expected to significantly reduce Utah monuments
President Donald Trump will shrink the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by about half, to 700,000 from 1.2 million acres, following the recommendation of his Interior …