public lands

The Interior Department’s secretarial order directs federal land managers to find places with unnecessary barriers to hunting and fishing and expand public access to outdoor recreation.

Listening sessions held by Democratic lawmakers ahead of legislative session show overlap of top concerns, they say.

Federal land managers are reopening their environmental review of a massive transmission line proposed across Nevada, a move conservation groups say could reshape how energy infrastructure is approved on public lands across the West.

Congress' budget proposal for the National Park Service rejects the major slashes requested by the Trump Administration last year.

Senators characterized the agency’s decision-making process as “rigid” and “slow,” and said they want states to have a bigger role.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule put conservation on equal footing with grazing and energy production. The Trump administration is trying to roll it back.

The politician is known for his support of energy development. He could oversee 10% of land in the U.S.

At least 1 in 5 Interior cuts could be in the Mountain West.

Wyoming is faced with a tale as old as time: balancing multiple interests on public land. The state is poised to protect a threatened pronghorn herd, but federal directives for Unleashing American Energy could get in the way.

Lee’s bill amends the Wilderness Act of 1964 to make exceptions for the Department of Homeland Security to conduct immigration enforcement actions.