Seven groups filed an appeal in Alaska Superior Court yesterday challenging a State of Alaska decision to grant an easement on State lands for the Ambler industrial road. The appeal outlines how the Alaska Department of Natural Resources violated the Alaska Constitution when approving the easement by failing to protect the public interest and take a hard look at all of the project’s impacts on land, water, wildlife, and local communities.

When people want very different experiences from the same winter landscape, can a map help them find common ground?

On the quiet west side of the Tetons, remains one of the last undeveloped strongholds where grizzly bears, bighorn sheep, and backcountry recreation still coexist. This spring, under pressure from Washington, D.C., the U.S. Forest Service decided to change that.