Thanks to the power of writer Wallace Stegner, Americans have for decades been able to put words to the importance wilderness holds in the nation’s history and imagination.
Articles on National Wildlife Refuge
Displaying all articles
Crowding is increasingly affecting all kinds of public lands. Adjoining communities need to find ways to manage it, or risk harm to the attractions that make them a destination.
Biden vowed ‘no more drilling on federal lands,’ but Russia’s war on Ukraine and pressures at home are hard to ignore.
Republicans and Democrats take sharply different positions on managing US public lands, but there’s solid consensus on some issues.
The Trump administration is opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing – a step that’s as much about politics as it is about energy.
A recent study finds that noise from human activities is intruding into many parks and other protected areas. Creating quiet zones and noise corridors can help reduce impacts from noise pollution.
Behind the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon lie decades of controversy over federal control of public land in western states.
Like much federal land in the US West, the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has a long history tied to Native Americans’ plight and conflicts between settlers and the federal government.
Top contributors
-
Lecturer in International Studies, University of Washington
-
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Colorado State University
-
Wallace Stegner Professor of Law, University Distinguished Professor, University of Utah
-
W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, Pomona College
-
Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for the Environment and Public Lands, Boise State University
-
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Calvin University
-
Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University
-
Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland
-
Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University