Conservation leaves land “idle” while it should be used for commercial purposes, the U.S. Interior Department stated.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, Congress passed a series of laws that profoundly affected Western ecosystems and human relationships to them. The Clean Air Act, designed to reduce air pollution, led the ...

The Trump Administration recently repealed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding—the ...

In Nebraska, Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) says conservation easements could be blocked by the 1981 law that created them in his state. LINCOLN, Neb. — In the late 1970s, landowners looking to protect a ...