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Public Lands and Outdoor Recreation
Utah Faces Down the Rock-Climbing Industrial Complex
Companies selling outdoor gear lobby endlessly for more federal wilderness—subsidized by the taxpayer.
A New Landscape: 8 Ideas for the Interior Department
Eight policy ideas to deliver environmental and economic improvements for the nation’s lands, waters, and other natural resources.
A Monumental Mistake
It’s time to make the Antiquities Act a thing of the past.
The Use and Management of Federal Coal
An in-depth look at the past and future of U.S. federal coal policy.
How to Deal With National Parks’ $12 Billion Maintenance Backlog?
As the centennial celebration for our national parks comes to an end, not all is right within our parks.
Property Rights, Access, and Neighborliness
Land managers should pursue negotiation instead of litigation when settling access disputes.
Walk into Wildfire, The Video
WATCH: In “Walk Into Wildfire,” artists Ethan Turpin and Jonathan PJ Smith arranged life-sized recordings from U.S. Forest Service research cameras to give an otherwise unsurvivable point-of-view.
Why We Fight over Western Lands
Federal land policies encourage conflict instead of negotiation.
Sailing the Sagebrush Sea
A cattle rancher surveys his land, gazing across a vast expanse of the western range. The land surges and rolls, lifting sharply in waves of stone, and receding softly onto the open plains. Before him is a living sea—a Sagebrush Sea, as vast and as variable as any ocean.