Public Lands & Waters

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Cow Manure from Serial Polluter Blamed for Killing 11,000 Bass, Trout in Iconic Maryland Stream

By Kris Millgate

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The Public Waters Rollback That ‘Should Be Avoided at All Costs’

By Natalie Krebs

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The Rush to Build Data Centers on Public Lands Is Worse Than You Thought

By Andrew McKean

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Video: I Fished Ground Zero for the Ambler Road

By Roy Holdford

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Inside the Long and Deliberate Collapse of America’s Public-Land Funding

By Natalie Krebs

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Trump Issues Executive Order to Open 2 National Monuments to Hunting, Access More Public Land, Protect Lead Ammo

By Christine Peterson

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Mike Lee Moves to Block Any Future Restoration of Bears Ears National Monument, Conservation Groups Warn

By Christine Peterson

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Public Hunting Access Secured on 20,000 Acres of Private Timber Land in $29 Million Deal

By Natalie Krebs

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EPA to Reopen Comment on Clean Water Act Rewrite That Could Leave 80 Percent of U.S. Wetlands Unprotected

By Natalie Krebs

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First AI Data Center Approved on Federal Public Land Hits a Major Roadblock

By Kris Millgate

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The Real Reason the Forest Service Is Killing the Roadless Rule

By Natalie Krebs

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I Was Convicted of Trespassing After Covering Public Land Access Issues on Our Controversial Wyoming Elk Hunt

By Andrew McKean

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Trump Administration Plans to Relax Travel Rules on National Forests. Increased Access for Motorized Vehicles and E-Bikes Is Likely to Follow

By Andrew McKean

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Public Comment Periods Don’t Usually Matter Much to the Feds. Duck Hunters Made a Difference Anyway — for Now

By Natalie Krebs

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Citing Wildfire Risk, Trump Administration Proposes to Scrap Entire Roadless Rule. Critics Argue That More Roads Will Lead to More Fires

By Andrew McKean

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Minnesota Governor Issues Executive Order Blocking Controversial Mine Near the Boundary Waters 

By Alex Robinson

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Trump Administration Finalizes Biggest Expansion of Hunting and Fishing on Wildlife Refuges in History

By Natalie Krebs

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The Forest Service Is Moving Toward Unrestricted Motorized Access to an Iconic Western Elk Herd. Hunters ‘Have No Idea What’s Coming’

By Natalie Krebs

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First Came the DOGE Cuts, Then Came the Wildfires

By Alex Robinson

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I Tried to Drive a Public Road, and Was Turned Back at Gunpoint by a Ranch Hand

By William A. Fairhurst Ben East