Lamar Fields, a tribal member, gathers blue corn to sample. With increasingly unreliable access to water, flexible crops like corn have become integral to the farm’s survival. To increase revenue, the ...

A former U.S. Geological Survey research scientist reflects on the Trump administration’s sweeping changes in the agency.

Rye Development proposed the current incarnation of the $2 billion to $3 billion facility in 2017. At the time, Klickitat County had already been planning for years to develop pumped hydro storage at ...

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe’s approach to water management is helping to integrate sovereignty and conservation into water policy in Montana.

The agency’s new plan for ecologically significant areas of western Oregon is not responsible forest management.

Badgers embody one of my mantras, “As above, so below,” so it is fitting that I have chosen as my final resting place a plot ...

The lodge was dimly lit and warm. It smelled of burgers frying and the owner’s trademark freshly cut French fries. People crowded around the most powerful person in the room, and everyone seemed to ...

The Burns Paiute and Shoshone-Bannock tribes are proving that reducing grazing may be the key to saving the iconic bird.

Alaska officials hope to protect a struggling caribou herd & bring back a critical subsistence hunt. Critics say the culling program isn't supported by available science.

The 30 tribal nations in the watershed — the river’s most senior water users — were deliberately excluded from the Colorado River Compact negotiations, a blatant attack on tribal sovereignty. In doing ...

The rodent responded by biting into Boulerice’s leather glove, hanging on with her two front teeth while researchers swiped a black streak of Clairol’s Nice’n Easy hair dye down her back. Prairie dogs ...

Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou migratory paths, subsistence harvest areas and remote Indigenous land. Over a ...