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Director of the Bureau of Land Management nominee Stevan Pearce is sworn in during his confirmation hearing in the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee.
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Controversial BLM Nominee Steve Pearce Advances to Senate for a Full Vote, Says He’s ‘Not So Sure’ About Keeping Public Lands

By Andrew McKean

a photo collage of high fence animals idaho
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High-Fence Ranches in Idaho Promised Biosecurity. Then Elk Started Escaping, and Wild Deer and Moose Broke in

By Christine Peterson

hunter holding dead nutria and gun; overhead view of boat in muddy river
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I Learned to Hunt (and Cook) Louisiana’s Invasive Swamp Rats Like a Local

By Gerry Bethge

A sign that says entering public lands.
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Podcast: Randy Newberg’s Forecast for Our Public Lands Has Some Surprising Good News

By Natalie Krebs

A BLM sign
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The Interior Just Gutted a Bedrock Conservation Law That Will Affect Public Lands Everywhere

By Christine Peterson

A composite image of the BLM nominee Stevan Pearce
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What’s So Bad About Stevan Pearce, Trump’s Pick to Run the BLM? For Starters, His Public-Land Track Record

By Andrew McKean

An aerial view of sockeye salmon swimming in a lake.
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Trump Administration Defends the Pebble Mine Veto in a Win for Wild Salmon

By Dac Collins

An entry sign in the Superior National Forest.
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The Forest Service Wants to ‘Streamline’ How Your Public Lands Are Managed by Giving You Less Opportunity to Comment

By Dac Collins

A bison grazes with snow flurries.
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‘Affirmative Action for Cattle.’ Tribes Challenge Fed’s Plan to Revoke Bison-Grazing Leases on Public Land

By Dac Collins

A lone bison grazing in Montana.
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Podcast: Here’s Why the Plan to Recover Wild Bison Has Become So Controversial

By Dac Collins

A herd of bison graze on a hillside in Montana.
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BLM Says American Prairie’s Bison Can No Longer Graze on Public Lands

By Dac Collins

Canoeists in the Boundary Waters.
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House Votes to Strip Critical Boundary Waters Protections in a Blow to Sportsmen and Public Lands

By Christine Peterson

A wildfire burning on national forest land in Utah.
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Utah Will Co-Manage 8 Million Acres of National Forest. Insiders Say It’s (Probably) Not a Way of Transferring Federal Land to States

By Christine Peterson

Paddling a tandem canoe across a lake in the Boundary Waters.
Public Lands & Waters

Trump Administration and Congress Are Attempting an ‘Unprecedented Maneuver’ to Roll Back Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Protections

By Dac Collins, Alex Robinson

A photo of three wolves in Wyoming
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Podcast: USFWS Director Brian Nesvik on the Future of Refuges and Wildlife Conservation

By Andrew McKean

A view of the Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge in central Oregon.
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Interior Department Plans to Open All Its Public Land to Hunting and Fishing — Unless Specifically Closed by Site Managers

By Andrew McKean

A hiker crosses at Iron Bar ranch
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We Corner Crossed the Wyoming Ranch That Started It All. Accessing Those Public Lands Is Still Complicated

By Christine Peterson

A fisherman releases a small brook trout in a rocky stream.
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‘This Would Have Serious, Real-World Impacts.’ Why the EPA’s Rule Change on Water Protections Would Be a Disaster for Fish and Wildlife

By Dac Collins

A brown river access sign with a fish on it.
Public Lands & Waters

The Federal Government Is About to Make Public Waterway Rules Way Less Confusing

By Christine Peterson

An elk hunter with his bull elk and the rancher who stole it.
Public Lands & Waters

Watch: A Landowner Stole My Buddy’s Public-Land Elk to Deter Us from ‘Hunting This Outfit’

By Andrew McKean