Apex predators are critical to healthy ecosystems. These determined biologists and wildlands advocates are out to prove that wolves and ranchers, scientists and politicians can coexist in the recovery of Mexican gray wolves.
Last week, the Trump Administration approved the first contract of its second term for new border barriers. Wildlife biologists and Indigenous rights organizers fear what comes next.
Traditional irrigation canals have long held communal—even ‘spiritual’—power while helping balance the water supply during droughts. But this communal system is increasingly threatened by commodication of water, growers say.
‘Misplaced Trust’ found 4.2 million acres—or 3 million football fields—in Texas land trusts that were wrested from Native peoples. Similar findings mar university holdings across the West, including New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and elsewhere.