Anxieties about the future often become refracted as questions of community identity: Who are we? What do we stand for?

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Pitkin County, Colorado, will take over management of the Maroon Bells scenic area, following Forest Service budget cuts and staffing cuts.

Amid a record-breaking year of Western bear conflict, the historically tolerant Red Lodge community is grappling with opposing views on how to live with the species — and if a 'fed bear' really should ...

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This latest atrocity has Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s fingerprints all over it. From slashing 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments and opening huge ...

Montana students learn Indigenous issues — or, at least, they’re supposed to. The state is the only one in the nation with a constitutional mandate to educate students on Native cultures and ...

Massive amounts of private money have poured into Montana’s elections for years. In 2020, the Steve Daines-Steve Bullock race ...

Voters in the Equality State finally felt the threat to public lands had reached a critical point, observers say.

This story is co-published by Public Domain. One afternoon in late September 2024, the Owyhee County Sheriff’s office began fielding reports of multiple smoke columns billowing from near Josephine ...