A controversial bill to allow an Alaska Native corporation to acquire roughly 70,000 acres of the Tongass National Forest primarily for logging goes before a House Natural Resources panel Thursday.
H.R. 740 by Indian and Alaska Native Affairs Chairman Don Young (R-Alaska) would allow Sealaska Corp...
A Senate committee Thursday will seek to advance roughly 30 lands bills, including measures to designate wilderness in Nevada and New Mexico, swap tens of thousands of acres of gas-rich lands in Utah, and designate a national historic park in Rhode Island.
The Energy and Natural Resources Committee...
The U.S. Forest Service won’t cut any funds from its retardant-bombing fleet this fire season, but it will enter the fray with a lot of planes that aren’t certified to fight wildfires.
On Monday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the agency will look to the U.S. military to supplement its...
The Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday said the operators of wind farms in the Tehachapi Mountains will not be charged if their turbines kill protected condors.
The announcement drew anger from environmentalists, who said the move undermines the California condor program.
The birds were nearly...
The plan for a 600,000-acre mitigation bank in Wyoming would benefit environmentalists, the state and energy developers, according to the men behind the idea.
The idea would allow companies to conserve land before they develop elsewhere. The current proposal involves a restoration project on a...
Bureau of Land Management officials said it would not issue a patent for 480 acres of federal land in southern Nevada that was once slated to be the future home of a professional sports complex.
The agency Friday informed Silver State -- the lender to Texas developer Chris Milam -- and the city of...
Lance Okeson at the Boise Fire Dispatch office had a surprise visit from the secretaries of the U.S. Agriculture and Interior departments Monday, and they came with bad news.
Okeson is in charge of the fuels program for the Bureau of Land Management's Boise District. Agriculture Secretary Tom...
An Aspen, Colo.-based nonprofit foundation that has given away millions of dollars in the past decade for regional conservation projects has awarded its single largest grant yet to three conservation groups working to buy back oil and natural gas leases in the pristine Thompson Divide.
The...
The Supreme Court today rebuffed an Indiana farmer's challenge to Monsanto Co.'s patents for its genetically modified soybean seeds that now permeate American agriculture.
In a unanimous ruling, justices held that the St. Louis chemical giant's patents remain in effect for seeds that were the...
Grizzly bears lack a reputation as a rule-following animal, but they sure inspire a lot of rule-making. The bears of the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem have a draft 158-page rulebook up for public comment this summer as they move toward possible removal from federal Endangered Species Act...
