Recent Land Articles

For more than half a century, a quiet but powerful law has stood between America's wild places and the industries that want to profit from them. That law is the National Environmental Policy Act — NEPA — and as of this week, it looks very different than it did before. The Department of the Inte

In a state as big as Texas, where private ranches stretch for miles and public access has always been slim, something big is shifting. For years, folks have griped about how little land is open to everyone—just four percent of the whole state, and out of that, only about a million acres where you c

Every fall, when the aspens turn gold and the elk start bugling down in the canyons, a lot of us head out with a rifle or a fly rod and figure the mountains will always be there. Lately, though, the smoke from summer fires hangs longer, the creeks run thinner, and the deer just don’t seem as thick