Una dieta constante de noticias no pudo haber evitado que los fuertes vientos de Santa Ana empujaran las llamas hacia el sur y luego hacia el oeste a través de Eaton Canyon, como tampoco los equipos ...

A steady diet of news couldn’t have kept the strong Santa Ana winds from pushing the flames south and then west through Eaton Canyon, any more than fire crews could have contained the fire’s early ...

Days after President Joe Biden gave his farewell address to the nation on Jan. 15, the Bureau of Land Management approved oil ...

How the first Native director of the National Park Service drew from a legacy of federal boarding schools and Indigenous ...

State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive ...

Chad Bradley is the Indigenous Affairs fellow at High Country News. They write from the Southwest and are a member of the Navajo Nation. Sign up to receive High Country News ’ email newsletters and ...

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.

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 ...

I GOT INTO the environmental restoration business by accident. After military tours at sea and in Iraq as a Marine grunt and sniper, I demobilized back to Salt Lake City, where my family had relocated ...

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 ...