Jan 7, 2019
Interior's Stealthy Plan to Hide Public Records
The proposed changes would give the agency almost unlimited discretion to deny FOIA requests.
J. Weston Phippen
Published
Dec 21, 2018
The Forest Service Is the Energy Industry's New Pal
New emails reveal how the U.S. Forest Service easily caved to Dominion Energy in their quest to build a disruptive pipeline along the Appalachian Trail.
Nov 13, 2018
A Hiker Is Missing in Mexico's Most Dangerous Mountains
For more than a week now an American hiker has been lost in northern Mexico’s deep Sierra Madre canyons.
Oct 19, 2018
Patagonia Endorses Tester and Rosen
In what might be a first for any American company, the clothing brand has endorsed two Senate candidates.
Oct 18, 2018
We Might Lose Access to the Zion Narrows Forever
The Zion Narrows is the most popular hike in one of most popular parks in the country.
Oct 11, 2018
Congress Is Quietly Eroding the Endangered Species Act
Five bills approved by the House Committee on Natural Resources during a chaotic news cycle could weaken the historically popular environmental law.
Sep 27, 2018
Lawsuit Challenges Trump's Potomac Closures
Twenty-five miles northwest of the White House is a two-mile length of the Potomac River where the water relaxes before it crosses an earthen dam near the Seneca Break rapids.
Jul 10, 2018
The Daring Rescue that Saved the Thai Soccer Team
A group of the world's best cave divers joined to help save the 12 boys and their coach in one of the most dangerous mission of its kind.
Jul 5, 2018
The Terrible State of Our National Parks—in Photos
The government spends a lot of our tax money on things of questionable need. Our public lands, however, are only becoming more loved, more used, and in dire need of repair. Thanks to some photos...
Jul 2, 2018
The Thai Soccer Team Trapped in a Cave Was Found Alive
Rescuers spent nine days searching for the 12 boys and their coach. They finally found them two miles deep in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system.
Jun 20, 2018
People Keep Finding Bodies in Joshua Tree
Within a month, the remains of two people—one of them half-buried—were found inside the park's boundaries, a place with a storied relationship to death.
Jun 5, 2018
The AT Pipeline Protesters Come Down from the Trees
For three months they defied weather and intermittent sieges on their food supplies by law enforcement. But after Catherine “Fern” MacDougal and a man known only as “Deckard” came down, it seemed...
May 9, 2018
Why Are NPS Park Police Headed to the Border?
The park police typically help keep the peace at urban monuments, but the Department of Interior is sending a group to the U.S.-Mexico border to chase smugglers. Sort of.
May 2, 2018
The Deadliest Days on the Alps in Decades
In all, the Italian newspaper La Republica reported that 14 people died during the storm, with victims reported in the Italian, French, and Swiss portions of the Alps.
Apr 4, 2018
Zinke Rolls Over on National Park Fee Hikes
The plan was unpopular with both conservative and liberal politicians, and it had been harangued by the media as a nonsolution to the Park Service’s maintenance backlog.
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