Billions in halted or canceled grants, gutted local offices, market turmoil and broken trust are at stake across the West.

The Sabino Canyon Volunteer Naturalists, a Tucson nonprofit, made a video about nurse trees — native ones like mesquites, ...

Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist, leads a coalition that’s quietly organizing a county-level rejection of the Antiquities Act.

Molly Montgomery is a freelance writer from Santa Fe. She covered Rio Arriba County and agricultural issues at the Rio Grande Sun in Española, where she received a New Mexico Press Association award ...

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Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in the West. Trump’s radical upheaval is accelerating the death of a dying art.

Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in the West. Trump’s radical upheaval is accelerating the death of a dying art.

The cougar was euthanized, and his tissue samples, which were tested for a number of diseases, revealed the presence of the ...

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After the Eaton Fire destroyed Adonis Jones' Altadena house of 55 years, the weight of what was lost is lingering long after the flames died. Now, like many Black families navigating disaster ...