How the first Native director of the National Park Service drew from a legacy of federal boarding schools and Indigenous teachings.

State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who was banned from nine tribal reservations, will oversee policies uniquely important to ...

Several years ago, Jade Powell uttered the word “transition” to a county commissioner at a local government meeting in the ...

ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES of being alive on earth in the age of climate catastrophe is that we find ourselves in the peculiar position of mourning the future.

To reimagine our relationship with wildfire, we must recognize the real value of federal wildland firefighters — and ...

I GOT INTO the environmental restoration business by accident. After military tours at sea and in Iraq as a Marine grunt and sniper, I demobilized back to Salt Lake City, where my family had relocated ...

The book and the film used the limits of human bodies to cultivate empathy for the experience of other beings.

To protect our sacred lands and, at minimum, hold the line on what tribes have fought for (and won), there must be a bold ...

This article appeared in the February 2025 print edition of the magazine with the headline “Unapologetically Indigenous.” ...

He reached into cracks and peered into crevices with a flashlight, hoping to find an endangered marine snail whose shell recently has become California’s state seashell: the black abalone. Seven ...

North Dakota sued the Interior Department at least five times under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now he’s set to run the agency.