Voters in the Equality State finally felt the threat to public lands had reached a critical point, observers say.

The photos in this essay, all taken from 1962 to 1968, reflect a post-World War II confidence that grand infrastructure could tame and re-engineer where “nature” fell short. Big projects were ...

Massive amounts of private money have poured into Montana’s elections for years. In 2020, the Steve Daines-Steve Bullock race for the U.S. Senate became the most expensive in st ...

Everything from sand to summer vacations is projected to change in the Grand Canyon as the river’s flows are reduced.

Discussions around the Painted Desert Power project, a large-scale solar project, have drawn attention to much broader questions about how renewable energy projects are regulated on the Navajo Nation.

A trust land timber sale parcel in southwestern Washington, near the headwaters of the Willapa River. Credit: Courtesy of Joshua Wright The more than 40 million acres of state trust lands across the ...

But as officials with the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) would discover and document in a lengthy investigative report, Steve Boren started the fires — at least 20 separate ignitions — on land owned ...

Noah Starling, a wildlife technician for Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, is helping the city ofBozeman anticipate and prevent conflicts between people and wildlife.

This story was produced by Public Domain and Fieldnotes and is co-published here by permission. On April 23, 2025, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s aide received a text message from an employee at ...

A Montana rancher wonders what is lost in her urge to share her Western life online.