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.

For weeks after the fire, he carried them out of habit. They jingled in his pocket, and sometimes he twirled them between his ...

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, ...

The berries are a critical resource for the Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation and have become a big market of the Pacific Northwest food industry.

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

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 ...

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

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

With a small suitcase in hand, in November of 2021, she went to the Interfaith Sanctuary, a homeless shelter in downtown Boise. Surrounded by a busy highway, businesses and warehouses, the low tan-and ...

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

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