Voter concerns about public lands played a mostly peripheral role in an election widely viewed as a referendum on the ...

In a video announcing his Congressional bid in Montana last month, longtime conservative radio host Aaron Flint bemoaned the prospect of “public lands being fenced off.” Flint, the Trump-endorsed ...

The U.S. Forest Service, which Michael Boren now oversees, appears to have abandoned any further enforcement action.

Nearly two years later, the cabin still stands inside the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, a protected swath of the larger Sawtooth National Forest. Now the undersecretary of agriculture for natural ...

An 18-year veteran of the US Department of the Interior has resigned in protest from the sprawling federal agency, denouncing “a deeply troubling assault on the rule of the law” that took place at the ...

A little-known provision of Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill would open thousands of acres of public lands at the edge of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters wilderness to a foreign-owned mining company.

As federal agents last month gunned down American citizens in the streets of Minneapolis, President Trump’s GOP operatives and allies were waging another sort of war on Minnesota — a ferocious legal ...

This article was published in partnership with High Country News. Last year, as Utah prepared to file a lawsuit aiming to take control of millions of acres of federal public land within its borders, ...

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee, one of the most radically anti-federal land lawmakers to ever walk the halls of Congress, moved late Wednesday to force the sale of as much as 3.2 million acres of ...