Wyatt Myskow

The 12th annual celebration of Latinos’ connection to the outdoors focuses on empowering the community to protect public lands.

The move to block new mining projects comes as the Trump administration seeks to revive American uranium production.

The largest such expansion in U.S. history, it will allow access to 92 million acres across 32 states. But the final rule outlining how it will work is not yet public.

Two executive orders signed Monday afternoon slashed the size of the Utah national monuments revered by tribes and public lands advocates. Grazing, mining and drilling interests wanted them opened to extraction.

Federal and state governments are helping Energy Fuels boost its processing of uranium and rare earth elements, but the company has a checkered past with tribes and communities in the Four Corners region.

The U.S. Forest Service’s sign-off allows South32’s Hermosa mine, one of the country’s biggest proposed critical mineral operations, to proceed despite vocal opposition.

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has been targeted for downsizing and protection rollbacks for years. But the latest attempt to overturn its management plan in Congress has stalled.

For the first time ever, researchers have quantified the length and mass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks globally and mapped the ecosystems where they are densest.

Amid the river’s worst water year on record and deadlocked negotiations over its future, the Bureau of Reclamation announced it will impose a new 10-year management plan if the states relying on the river don’t come to an agreement.

Biden’s Public Lands Rule ensured protecting or rehabilitating federal land would be as legitimate a use as mining, logging or drilling. Republicans and developers said it was a threat to the principle of “multiple use.”