Center for Western Priorities, Sierra Club, and Senator Tom Udall kick-off “Road to 30” virtual tour

The big budget bill offers up hundreds of millions of acres of public land for drilling, logging, and mining and strips funding from the National Park Service and BLM The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is anything but beautiful for public lands. Lawmakers in Congress hid incredibly destructive and unpopular favors to the coal, oil and […]

Proposals to open up public lands for housing development are attracting increasing attention, especially in Utah and Nevada where elected officials have been vocal in their support of this concept. But a growing number of people are realizing that the West’s housing affordability crisis won’t be solved by simply making it easier to privatize and develop public land. […]

A group of Tribal leaders and California lawmakers are jointly calling on President Joe Biden to create three new national monuments in California. The proposed Sáttítla, Chuckwalla, and Kw’tsán national monuments would protect more than 1 million acres of sacred Tribal lands. The Chuckwalla National Monument would preserve over 620,000 acres of public lands in Riverside and Imperial counties, just south of Joshua Tree […]

Kate and Aaron are joined by three members of the reporting team behind, Lithium Liabilities, a groundbreaking investigation into how lithium mining could affect the West’s water supply. Emma Peterson, Morgan Casey, and Lauren Mucciolo are part of a large team of editors, photographers, and reporters who worked on the investigation at the Howard Center […]

As the Interior Department rushes to reopen parks despite the pandemic, former NPS leaders Phil Francis and Joan Anzelmo weigh in on what should happen first to keep park employees and the public safe.