The Trump administration plans to roll back the 2001 "Roadless Rule," which would revoke protection from 58 million acres of ...

Reversal of Clinton-era rule opens up roadbuilding and commercial logging on tens of millions of acres nationally that have ...

Scott Fitzwilliams said the White River National Forest has lost 40% of its staff through retirements, buyouts and firings.

Yellowstone National Park has over 1,000 miles of trails and nearly 300 designated backcountry campsites, allowing people to ...

Mountain ski guides frequent the high alpine where whitebark pine grows. Two are using their time in the backcountry to ...

U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah single-handedly appears to have produced what just might be the most unified, and broadly ...

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee is working to reassure skeptics who worry that his proposal to sell certain federal lands for ...

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Senate Republicans recently proposed the sale of up to 3.29 million acres of public land across 11 Western states. While ...

Think our national parks are only good for hiking and scenic drives? Think again, says our national parks columnist.

Sitting in an old-growth spruce fir forest, Doug Smith says he can see firsthand the impact of reintroducing wolves on the larger ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park. Long before Yellowstone became ...