Colorado’s wolf reintroduction plan calls for the release of between 30 and 50 wolves over the next three to five years. The first 10 wolves were relocated from Oregon, but until last week, Colorado ...

Today, the story of Flannery Associates, a subsidiary of California Forever, the real estate corporation behind those land purchases, is well-known in the region. Backed by powerful Silicon Valley ...

An investigation by High Country News and Grist reveals how public institutions benefit from extractive industries on Indian reservations.

The corner of a recently logged state trust land parcel is visible on the Flathead Reservation. Credit: Tailyr Irvine / High Country News and Grist This investigation is a collaboration with Grist. On ...

Arizona’s state fish is doing well but faces a daunting future.

During the final season of Reservation Dogs — an Indigenous coming-of-age show set on the Muscogee Reservation in Oklahoma — ...

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At Portland, Oregon’s Cathedral Park in 2022, kayakers protest Zenith Energy’s oil terminal operations in the CEI Hub. Credit: Alex Milan Tracy Linnton, Oregon, is never quiet. Freight trains ...

In the long afternoon of last year’s summer solstice, Ernest Edwin Higbee Jr. pulled a white Chevrolet Tahoe off the main road of Alamo, Nevada, driving past spindly creosote bush and stalky ...

There was a time you could catch tons of salmon in a single day at Kettle Falls, a series of pools cascading into each other on the Columbia River in northern Washington. That was before the U.S ...