Tag: National Parks

The government shutdown that paralyzed Washington for five weeks wreaked havoc on our national parks, wildlife refuges and other public lands. But beyond the...

When Kitty Benzar bought her house in Colorado’s San Juan National Forest 30 years ago, federal law prohibited land-management agencies from charging people to...

This story first appeared in High Country News.  Why are we drawn to monuments that commemorate evil, darkness and death? What compels us to remember...

A bipartisan poll from Colorado College debunks stereotypes about Coloradans' attitudes toward federal land and energy production. It's easy to get caught up in the...

No matter how much water it takes to cool a proposed nuclear power plant near Green River, Utah – the topic of thorny debate...

Tim DeChristopher, a University of Utah student who last December allegedly won 13 Bureau of Land Management oil and gas leases for $1.7 million...

Nothing says Wild West, summer road-trip, vacation with the kids quite like dipping a gold pan in a chilly Rocky Mountain stream, taking a...

A spike in uranium prices in recent years has sparked a mining-claim rush near a proposed Colorado wilderness area – a situation that would be exacerbated by a federal energy bill that may include nuclear power in a national renewable energy standard.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar invoked both President Roosevelts -- Teddy and FDR -- in a speech celebrating the department's 160th birthday at Interior headquarters in Washington Tuesday afternoon. "When faced with a crisis, Americans always build a path to progress," Salazar said, according to prepared remarks released shortly before the hoopla kicked off.

Great Smoky Mountain National Park and the mountain range it protects were named for the natural fog that often enshrouds its peaks on the North Carolina-Tennessee border. But in recent years the nation’s most visited national park is called “Great Smoky” for another reason.