Investigation finds that Department of Justice rarely prosecutes grizzly bear killers under the Endangered Species Act.

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William Perry Pendley has long opposed public lands and wildlife protections but is tasked with overseeing them.

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With Trump’s blessing, cell towers are infiltrating protected public lands across the West.

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Emails show Interior appointees crafted a narrative that blamed forest protection efforts for wildfires.

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Aurelia Skipwith has ties to water interests fighting endangered species protection and worked for ag giant Monsanto.

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The traps have caused unintentional deaths, but Wildlife Services can continue to employ them to protect livestock and farm crops.

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One of the first Native American women elected to Congress is fighting fossil fuel development on ‘the most pristine and beautiful places in our country.’

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The Wilderness Act has complicated efforts to protect the rare California wildflower.

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For years now, the oil and gas industry has been stirring up trouble for sage grouse. The possibility that the prairie-dwelling birds might receive Endangered Species Act protection gives oil executives high-grade anxiety. It would threaten jobs, they say. It would ruin the economy. It would reduce profits. All the noise the industry has made […]

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Trail dogs — that’s what trail workers across the country call themselves. It tells you what life is like for the thousands of young men and women who spend their summers tending to the travel corridors on our country’s public lands. Trail dogs really do work like dogs, cutting back brush, sawing through trees and […]

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