Tag: public lands
Grand Canyon National Park turns 100: How a place once called...
Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University
Few sights are as instantly recognizable, and few sites speak more fully to American nationalism. Standing on the South Rim...
To preserve US national parks in a warming world, reconnect fragmented...
Stephen Nash, University of Richmond
The Trump administration’s decision to keep many U.S. national parks open during the current federal government shutdown, with few or...
A perfect storm of factors is making wildfires bigger and more...
Cassandra Moseley, University of Oregon
Hopes for fewer large wildfires in 2018, after last year’s disastrous fire season, are rapidly disappearing across the West. Six...
All wildfires are not alike, but the US is fighting them...
Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University
So far, the 2018 fire season has produced a handful of big fires in California, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado;...
The sage grouse isn’t just a bird – it’s a proxy...
John Freemuth, Boise State University
The Trump administration is clashing with conservation groups and others over protection for the greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), a...
President Trump’s national monument rollback is illegal and likely to be...
Nicholas Bryner, University of California, Los Angeles; Eric Biber, University of California, Berkeley; Mark Squillace, University of Colorado, and Sean B. Hecht, University of...
Shrinking and altering national monuments: Experts assess Interior Secretary Zinke’s proposals
Robert B. Keiter, University of Utah; Anthony Moffa, University of Maine; Sarah Schindler, University of Maine, and Syma A. Ebbin, University of Connecticut
Editor’s note:...
Interior Secretary Zinke invokes Teddy Roosevelt as model, but his public...
John Freemuth, Boise State University
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s recommendations to shrink four national monuments and allow fossil fuel development activities on others is just...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
