U.S. 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.

Western states were using funds from the Infrastructure Act to clean up pollution left behind by industry. Now, the Trump ...

Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou ...

The cougar was euthanized, and his tissue samples, which were tested for a number of diseases, revealed the presence of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu. Less than two weeks later, ...

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They soon learned that the institution was notorious for refusing to return Indigenous items, in open violation of NAGPRA. “The problem with NAGPRA was that it had no teeth,” said Gonzalez. The ...

In August 2023, the judge ruled against the state, which appealed to the Montana Supreme Court. When the court affirmed the ruling in December, Held became the first case in the country in which youth ...

The author of ‘By the Fire We Carry’ notes the nation’s power of empire while looking to history to frame our present.

For weeks after the fire, he carried them out of habit. They jingled in his pocket, and sometimes he twirled them between his fingers. And then, sitting in his car one evening after making the ...

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He has been working closely with HCN’s three new editorial fellows, who joined us in January. Fellows spend most of a year ...