Congress has begun nullifying resource management plans that were developed and implemented to guide long-term stewardship of federal lands. Plans cooperatively developed by the federal Bureau of Land Management in Montana, North Dakota, and Alaska -- in consultation with scientists, conservation groups, indigenous peoples, industry, and other users of these tracts of federal lands -- are the first on the chopping block. These Resource Management Plans (RMPs) provide stabil

The Trump administration seeks to weaken conservation by rescinding a rule that governs public land use. The Conservation and Landscape...

Newly published research in Science predicts that by 2070 almost half of Earth's land surface will experience increases in spatial...