A field guide of public lands and energy. Conserve it or use it?

Why opening 58 million acres for “a few roads” is overreach, and how the rule keeps water clean, wildlife connected, and fires fewer.

We may have avoided selling off public lands, but new leases and environmental rollbacks still put ecosystems at risk.

Federal leasing in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin attempts to breathe life into America’s coal industry corpse - at the expense of public lands.

The idea is almost poetic. Nature reclaiming what was taken. But is it a genuine possibility or just wishful thinking?