J. Weston Phippen
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This Film Shows What Trump's Wall Would Destroy
If you repeat a word too often, it loses all meaning; it becomes air on your tongue, without texture or a tie to anything real. Now say “the border.” In the past four years, we’ve heard about this place so often that it’s become nothing more than a line on a map, a division we are told needs a wall or doesn’t. → Read More
Interior's Stealthy Plan to Hide Public Records
The proposed changes would give the agency almost unlimited discretion to deny FOIA requests. → Read More
The Forest Service Is the Energy Industry's New Pal
New emails reveal how the U.S. Forest Service easily caved to Dominion Energy in their quest to build a disruptive pipeline along the Appalachian Trail. → Read More
Patagonia Endorses Tester and Rosen
In what might be a first for any American company, the clothing brand has endorsed two Senate candidates. → Read More
We Might Lose Access to the Zion Narrows Forever
The Zion Narrows is the most popular hike in one of most popular parks in the country. → Read More
Congress Is Quietly Eroding the Endangered Species Act
Five bills approved by the House Committee on Natural Resources during a chaotic news cycle could weaken the historically popular environmental law. → Read More
Lawsuit Challenges Trump's Potomac Closures
Twenty-five miles northwest of the White House is a two-mile length of the Potomac River where the water relaxes before it crosses an earthen dam near the Seneca Break rapids. → Read More
The Daring Rescue that Saved the Thai Soccer Team
A group of the world's best cave divers joined to help save the 12 boys and their coach in one of the most dangerous mission of its kind. → Read More
The Terrible State of Our National Parks—in Photos
The government spends a lot of our tax money on things of questionable need. Our public lands, however, are only becoming more loved, more used, and in dire need of repair. Thanks to some photos provided by the National Parks Conservation Association, we got a peek at what the maintenance backlog really looks like. → Read More
The Thai Soccer Team Trapped in a Cave Was Found Alive
Rescuers spent nine days searching for the 12 boys and their coach. They finally found them two miles deep in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system. → Read More
People Keep Finding Bodies in Joshua Tree
Within a month, the remains of two people—one of them half-buried—were found inside the park's boundaries, a place with a storied relationship to death. → Read More
The AT Pipeline Protesters Come Down from the Trees
The last two tree sitters fighting the 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline project in Jefferson National Forest surrendered to police. Will others take their place? → Read More
Why Are NPS Park Police Headed to the Border?
The park police typically help keep the peace at urban monuments, but the Department of Interior is sending a group to the U.S.-Mexico border to chase smugglers. Sort of. → Read More
The Deadliest Days on the Alps in Decades
In all, the Italian newspaper La Republica reported that 14 people died during the storm, with victims reported in the Italian, French, and Swiss portions of the Alps. → Read More
Zinke Rolls Over on National Park Fee Hikes
The plan was unpopular with both conservative and liberal politicians, and it had been harangued by the media as a nonsolution to the Park Service’s maintenance backlog. → Read More
Dry Winters Cost the Ski Industry $1 Billion
A new report by Protect Our Winters, a climate advocacy group, says a low-snow year can cost the ski resort industry more than $1 billion and 17,400 jobs, compared to an average season. → Read More
Keeping the National Parks Open Is a Terrible Idea
Congress still has until the end of Friday to fund the government, but Republicans, who the majority of people blame, again, for Congress’s inability to keep the lights on, are trying to temper the backlash by keeping the national parks open. → Read More
The GOP Wants Chouinard to Testify? He Should Accept.
The intensifying war between Republicans and Patagonia could now move to Capitol Hill—exactly where the outdoor industry could make the most impact. → Read More
National Parks Fee Increase Would Cost Local Towns
Looking only at Yellowstone National Park, the study says Zinke's increase would cost towns within a 60-mile radius of Yellowstone about $3.4 million each year. → Read More
The Dollars and Sense of Drilling in ANWR
It's the greatest chance in decades Republicans have to auction away, then dig, trench, and drill land that for 65 years has been called the last great American wilderness. → Read More