Thank you for your stellar reporting (“ How the Interior secretary has let down public lands and the nation ,” Sept. 24, 2026), which is often very sad news for us who care about our environment — sad ...

The sky island range in southeastern Arizona is a gathering spot for species from around the globe.

In September, members of the HCN staff and board gathered in Estes Park, Colorado, to reconnect and reset after another year of hard work. The aspen leaves were going gold on the hillsides, elk ...

The Forest Service, which Michael Boren now oversees, appears to have abandoned any further enforcement action.

The Trump administration has once again gutted Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah by stripping away roughly 90% of its acreage and dissolving the Bears Ears Inter-Triba ...

In the 2026 legislative session, Sen. Jeff Steinborn, D, proposed a microgrid oversight bill that would have given the state ...

Many federal buyout programs have strict eligibility requirements that exclude some of the people most vulnerable after a ...

The bipartisan energy permitting bill currently before Congress would speed up clean energy and fossil fuel projects by weakening bedrock environmental laws.

We get plenty of people who come unprepared or don’t do any research at all. To these guys’ credit, they did try,” said Nick Meyers, U.S. Forest Service program manager of the Mount Shasta Wilderness ...

High Country News: In the book’s acknowledgements, you state, “I am indebted to the Pacific Northwest, a place that inspires me to write as expansively as the land.” Tell us about this and what it ...

If passed, the measure would tax large corporate retailers to help the city meet its climate goals and improve quality of life for residents. On a muggy July day, volunteers marched the half mile from ...

An appeals court hearing could determine whether feds reconsider Endangered Species Act protections for wolves across the West.