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Tommy Orange photographed in Angels Camp, California. The genealogical context and abrupt shift from one history to the present day underscores the immediacy of the family’s long struggle with both ...

Before the dams went up, salmon, steelhead and Pacific lamprey could easily navigate the entire length of the Klamath River, ...

Saturday of spring, members of the Salt Lake Valley’s queer community gathered at the Moonstead, the Mobile Moon Co-op’s half ...

Supporters call it ‘the largest conservation opportunity in the West.’ ...

A giant sediment pulse — millions of cubic yards of silt, clay and dead algae — trapped for decades behind the dams is now flowing downstream.

A yucca moth (Tegeticula Antithetica, top right) and other insects from a glue trap viewed through a microscope in the USGS laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Credit: Roberto (Bear) ...

This is the question the late Charles Wilkinson tackles in his latest, and posthumous, book, Treaty Justice: The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights, the first ...

I was happy this all-lady crew — my daughter, my niece and I — were hunting together. The girls held their guns pointed toward the blue sky above us, ready. We all spotted the seal and I pointed the ...

The Indigenous-led department is a ’shining star’ when it comes to tribal consultation, but it still has a long ways to go.

Scott Schuyler, a member of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe and its natural resources and cultural policy representative, stands by the site of the future wildlife crossing in Skagit Valley, Washington.

Multidisciplinary artist Nizhonniya Austin talks about authenticity, trust fund pottery hipsters, and her role as Cara in ‘The Curse.’ ...