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Trump’s administration can’t grasp that some American lands should remain wild, without roads or logging (抖阴ap)
Pushing to build new roads in our most rugged areas is a fool鈥檚 errand. Let抖阴ap restore the national forests, trails and access roads that for too long we鈥檝e allowed to...
抖阴ap: Beware the Trojan Horse of “affordable housing” targeting public land
Recently, some pundits have suggested that a fix for America鈥檚 housing problem is to sell off public land. After all, the federal government manages hundreds of millions of acres.
抖阴ap: After 40 years of living with wolves, this wildlife biologist concludes managing people is the more difficult task
Biologist Diane K. Boyd has had a front-row seat to 40 years of wolf recovery in the West, but her new memoir reveals that entanglements with humans in Montana were...
抖阴ap: Stop villainizing the cowboy. Turns out ranchland is essential for conservation.
As that story was told, its villains were often the folks in the cowboy hats. It was an old tale that cattle and predators didn鈥檛 mix. Environmentalists came up with...
抖阴ap: Hiking public lands shouldn鈥檛 require a ladder or a lawsuit
Imagine you were part owner of a nice piece of rural land, maybe with a trout stream running through it. But your neighbors won鈥檛 let you in. You don鈥檛 have...
Writers on the Range: Politicians are trying to smother America鈥檚 conservation fund
A handful of our representatives in Congress are quietly preparing a multibillion-dollar rip-off of American families.
Long: Idaho鈥檚 caribou teach a harsh lesson
The end of the line seems imminent for the last caribou of the Lower 48. Woodland caribou once roamed the forested northern tier from Maine to Michigan to Washington state,...
Long: Can Trump’s Interior pick, Ryan Zinke, live up to Roosevelt?
The newly drafted secretary of the Interior Department, Ryan Zinke, takes pride in comparing his conservation principles to those of Theodore Roosevelt.