We’re Having Our Worst Wildfire Season Year in a Decade, and It’s Probably Going to Get Worse

As drought and high temps persist, and as fuel management continues to decline, this summer is the perfect storm for wildfires. Here's what to expect

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The USDA Just Finalized Faster Environmental Reviews for Public-Land Projects

Revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act will likely speed up logging and mining projects while potentially reducing the role of feedback from hunters and anglers. It's raising concerns about long-term impacts to public lands

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‘My Face Started Peeling.’ This Weed Is 20 Feet Tall, Causes Chemical Burns, and Might Be in Your Local Woods

Sap from this toxic plant can cause blindness and painful, sun-activated burns that last for months. Here’s what to look for

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California pledges to open 7% of its land and waters to Indigenous tribes

The new policy, set by the California Natural Resources Agency, aims to start healing the harm caused by the state’s actions to bar tribes from their homelands and criminalize their cultural and land management practices. These actions not only harmed Native communities, whose cultures and ways of life are intimately tied to the plants, animals and landscape of their homelands, but also caused…

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This Unique Blackwater Swamp Could’ve Been a Mine. Now It’s Becoming a Wildlife Management Area

A series of land deals in Georgia have put an end to the controversial Twin Pines project — while also opening up thousands of acres to public access

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Trump Administration Defends the Pebble Mine Veto in a Win for Wild Salmon

By supporting the 2023 veto of the project by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Trump administration is standing behind its previous decision in 2020 to deny Pebble's mining permits

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