SAGUAROS SYMBOLIZE the Sonoran Desert, appearing in classic Western movies and even children’s cartoons. A cactus can grow up to 78 feet high and live over 200 years. Saguaros take their time to ...

She co-founded a Whatcom County chapter of the Rainbow Coalition. Later, as part of the United Farm Workers of America, she led negotiations to win a union contract for farmworkers at the Chateau Ste.

The birds are already under threat. Urban development has shrunk their habitat, and invasive European starlings are usurping ...

The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change.

Whittekiend pointed out that — even before all the layoffs and resignations this spring — the Forest Service sometimes struggled to get through busy fire seasons. Firefighters have been called in from ...

As the federal land and wildlife agencies struggle to meet their responsibilities, volunteers and others are stepping up, not only to help endangered toads but also to maintain trail systems, host ...

The administration said it will go hunting for cases of wind energy companies unintentionally killing migratory birds — something it has long argued is not a violation of federal law.

Brian Buckbee lives in Missoula, Montana. He is co-founder of The 406 Writers’ Workshop. His stories have appeared in The Sun, The Georgia Review, Mid-American Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review ...

Carol Ann Fitzgerald is a former editor at The Sun and The Oxford American. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Ploughshares, The Oxford American, The Sun, The OA Book of Great Music ...

Kylie Mohr is a correspondent for High Country News writing from Montana. Email her at [email protected] or submit a letter to the editor.

By painting their final meal before execution, an artist humanized people sentenced to capital punishment.

The 1906 Antiquities Act gave presidents the power to protect objects on public lands. A Justice Dept. memo said the Act also ”carries with it the power to revoke.” ...