The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change.

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of ...

The majority of public land is too fire prone and far away from communities to even make sense for housing, research shows.

Days after the workplace immigration raids that first sparked protests in Los Angeles, families still had no contact with ...

Antiquities Act gave presidents the power to protect objects on public lands. A Justice Dept. memo said the Act also ”carries with it the power to revoke.” ...

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In 2006, Luis Reyes Jr., CEO of Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, an electricity distribution cooperative in northern New Mexico, was in a bind. On one side, clean energy proponents were pushing ...

Chevron, which has funneled more than $8 million toward Questa’s revitalization efforts since 2008 through the Questa Economic Development Fund, has said it may be willing to use some of its ...

The Little Finland area of Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada. A budget amendment in Nevada would pave the way for the development of public land near the monument. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM Stay ...