State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.

ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES of being alive on earth in the age of climate catastrophe is that we find ourselves in the peculiar position of mourning the future.

The day after the OMB directive, the EPA complied, cutting off the disbursement of federal funds for all of its programs.

The book and the film used the limits of human bodies to cultivate empathy for the experience of other beings.

To protect our sacred lands and, at minimum, hold the line on what tribes have fought for (and won), there must be a bold ...

He reached into cracks and peered into crevices with a flashlight, hoping to find an endangered marine snail whose shell recently has become California’s state seashell: the black abalone. Seven ...

Securing any rental in Southern California’s notoriously tight housing market is a feat in the best of times. Staying in that housing long enough to create years of memories, as many families ...

Threatened ground squirrels in the West, like prairie dogs, face a devastating loss of habitat as well as a general lack of interest in their ecological function. It’s hard to know how to help ...

That same day, the Biden administration began the process of withdrawing more than 300,000 acres of public land from new mining claims and mineral leases in the Amargosa Valley in Nevada, protecting ...

The poet Rachel Richardson learns, through writing and motherhood, to defy fear. Sign up to receive High Country News ’ email newsletters and get on-the-ground reporting and investigations delivered ...

FIRE IS A NATURAL PART of Western ecosystems, and many forest species crave its disturbance and the resulting regeneration. But starting in the mid-to-late 1800s, the federal government banished ...