In Arizona and Wisconsin, Native turnout — which often leans liberal — made the difference in Biden’s slim but winning margin.

Growing traditions in northern New Mexico.

Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists, in a special issue about collaboration in the West. Tom France is an attorney...

Today, FERC ordered PacifiCorp to surrender the dam license, the final hurdle after 20 years of studies and advocacy.

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

In Arizona and Wisconsin, Native turnout — which often leans liberal — made the difference in Biden’s slim but winning margin.

Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists, in a special issue about collaboration in the West. Tom France is an attorney...

Once again, the media has excluded Indigenous peoples from our own story.

Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists, in a special issue about collaboration in the West. Tom France is an attorney...

Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions.

From a jump in ER visits and gun violence to fears for maternal health, the Northwest’s May heat wave shows the dangers of more moderate, early heat waves.

After months of organizing, charges against Nick Tilsen, NDN Collective president and CEO, and all others arrested will be dropped.

‘The whole purpose is to highlight and showcase Black birders, and anybody can do that.’

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

As the Biden administration begins, tribal nations with ties to Utah assert their relationships to the land.

How a transgender-owned alpaca ranch in Colorado foretells the future of the rural queer West.

Environmentalists hope action will follow new state stance on climate.

The agency tasked with safeguarding our greatest public lands has neglected to protect its workers.

How last year’s record-breaking heat wave caused misery and chaos for Washington’s incarcerated population — and why it’s set to happen all over again.

In the United States in recent years, a kind of writing variously called “nature writing” or “landscape writing” has begun to receive critical attention, leading some to assume that this is a...

As President Biden takes the helm, conservation groups take stock of the border wall’s environmental impacts.

Desert farming, wasteful irrigation and the profoundly thirsty crop is bringing the critical river to the brink.

How a transgender-owned alpaca ranch in Colorado foretells the future of the rural queer West.

As the Biden administration begins, tribal nations with ties to Utah assert their relationships to the land.

In Arizona and Wisconsin, Native turnout — which often leans liberal — made the difference in Biden’s slim but winning margin.

After Miguel Ordeñana discovered mountain lion P-22 in urban LA, he became a key advocate for habitat connectivity, which is essential for the species’ survival in Southern California.

Sahn will lead coverage of the Western United States as the magazine heads into its second half-century.

Indigenous science is using natural regeneration to restore Western ecosystems.

The project ‘sparked public conversations about the debts universities owe to Indigenous nations.’

Historian Gordon Chang’s new book attempts to correct that erasure.

Youth activists in Seattle call out banks and insurance companies for fueling the climate crisis.

In Grand Junction, Colorado, the presidential election is a choice between two distinct energy futures.

Five days of expert testimony argued that Montana can transition away from fossil fuels and reap economic benefits in the process. Now it’s up to the judge.

‘Under Bernhardt, the Interior Department appears to have priced access to our nation’s resources at $30 million and counting.’

Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists, in a special issue about collaboration in the West. Tom France is an attorney...

A nation of laws cannot exist on stolen land.

The idea that outdoor recreation leads to meaningful conservation rests on a big ‘if.’

Theresa Harlan’s family was forcibly removed from their home in the 1950s. Today, she wants the Park Service to acknowledge her story.

As our tribe debates Cherokee history and identity, Cherokee citizens with white privilege carry the most responsibility to move our tribe forward.

Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions.

With immigration numbers low, the agriculture industry looks to another form of disenfranchised workers.

A look at the Elwha unleashed.