Does Trump Really Have the Authority to Shrink National Monuments?
If President Trump gets his way, more than two dozen of the country’s protected national monuments could soon be a thing of the past. There’s just one problem: According to a new study, President Trump...
View ArticleConserving Forests for the Good of All
Oaks, tulip poplars and hickory trees rise to form the old-growth canopy of the James Madison Landmark Forest, which encompasses 200 acres behind Montpelier, the fourth president’s historic home. In...
View ArticleBig Oil Could Threaten Biodiversity in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Buried in the recently proposed congressional budget for 2018 is a partially cleared path for oil and gas drilling in one of North America’s last truly wild environments: the Arctic National Wildlife...
View ArticleZinke Submits National Monuments Review Proposal
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today submitted to President Trump his promised review of 27 of the country’s national monuments. Exactly what that review contains remains a mystery. The contents...
View ArticleTrump vs. Bears Ears: Outraged Native Groups Respond
“Offensive.” “Illegal.” “Racist.” Those are just a few of the words used by Native American leaders and groups this week in response to President Trump’s plan to remove protections from 85 percent of...
View ArticleTrump’s Dismemberment of Bears Ears National Monument: Perspective From...
President Trump’s visit to Salt Lake City Monday to sign two orders slashing the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments also included a meeting with Mormon religious...
View ArticleThese Butterflies Have Lawyers
Don’t mess with Texas butterflies. They have lawyers. This week attorneys representing the North American Butterfly Association filed a suit against the Trump administration for its plan to build a...
View ArticleAichi or Bust: Is the World on Target to Protect Its Most Threatened Ecosystems?
The Paris Climate Accord has gotten a lot of press lately, but did you know there’s an equally important international strategy to preserve the world’s most threatened ecosystems? The Aichi...
View ArticleHow the Golden Lion Tamarin Is Helping to Heal Brazil’s Rainforest
Sometimes conserving rare species and habitats requires waiting a few years for all of the pieces of a puzzle to come together. For one project in coastal Brazil, that process took the better part of a...
View ArticleThe Budget Crunch at America’s National Parks
Crowded visitor centers, crumbling roads and aging buildings — those are the sights at some of America’s national parks lately, caused by years of chronic underfunding. Will the situation soon get even...
View ArticleTrump’s Policies on Public Lands Will Hurt Local Economies
The Trump administration this week released draft plans for mining and other development within lands recently removed from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. The plans, which...
View ArticleIs the United States About to Lose Its Best Conservation Program?
Time is running out for one of the United States’ most successful — and least-known — conservation programs. Virtually every county in the United States has benefited from the Land and Water...
View ArticleNational Parks at Risk From Trump Administration’s Energy Agenda
Millions of acres of ecologically and culturally important public lands could face permanent damage or destruction under President Trump’s energy-dominance agenda, experts warn. “The Trump...
View ArticleRoad to Ruin? State Plans Threaten Some of America’s Last Wild Places
Millions of acres of relatively untouched national forest protected through a Clinton-era regulation could be opened up to road building and logging in two western states. The forests are currently...
View ArticleIs the Trump Administration ‘Gaming the Shutdown’ to Serve Energy and Hunting...
Two years into the Trump administration, its attacks on environmental regulations, policy and science are already well documented. But the current partial government shutdown, now more than a month...
View ArticleNational Emergency? Constitutional Experts Have Concerns
By Julian Hernandez and Molly Stellino, Cronkite News PHOENIX – President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on Friday to redistribute government funds to build his long-sought after wall along...
View ArticleThe Roar of Military Jets Triggers a Crusade for Quiet
On a chilly March morning, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton and his assistant, Laura Giannone, hiked into a glade of moss-draped maples in the Hoh Rainforest of northwest Washington’s Olympic National...
View ArticleA Steal of a Deal: How Ranchers Take Advantage of Public Lands
What animal could survive on $1.35 worth of food a month? Certainly not your average housecat, which can eat up to $45 worth of food every 30 days. So why, then, do cattle and other livestock in the...
View ArticleThe William Perry Pendley Rehabilitation Tour
William Perry Pendley wants you think that what he thinks doesn’t matter. Pendley spent four decades advocating for the corporate exploitation of U.S. public lands. He now serves the Trump...
View ArticleWestward Heave-ho: How a Federal Agency’s Move to Colorado Threatens Public...
When it comes to public lands, the National Park Service has better name recognition among Americans, but it’s the Bureau of Land Management, along with the USDA’s Forest Service, that has more...
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