What Project 2025 has to say about Native communities
Oct 29, 2024 · Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe Councilman Donald Medart joins members of Congress, tribal leaders and community advocates at a rally in Washington, D.C., this April to urge the Biden ...
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Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats
Oct 11, 2024 · Tens of thousands of birds crowd a recently flooded rice field in Wilson, California, last October. Birds identified at the field included geese, blackbirds, ibis, gulls, cranes and starlings.
Montana’s Jon Tester might lose. Here’s why that matters
Oct 31, 2024 · Welcome to the Landline, a monthly newsletter from High Country News about land, water, wildlife, climate and conservation in the Western United States. Sign up to get it in your inbox.. In 2006 ...
A reality check on Biden’s ‘30 by 30’ conservation plan
Jun 23, 2021 · A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed an executive order that announced his commitment to protecting 30% of U.S. land and water — over 720 million acres — by 2030.
States own lands on reservations. To use them, tribes must pay.
Sep 16, 2024 · The state trust lands that came from sanctioned land grabs of the early 20th century helped bolster state economies and continue to underwrite non-Indian institutions while infringing on tribal ...
Get to know the Pacific brant - High Country News
Dec 1, 2024 · Brant weigh about 3 pounds, making them closer in stature to mallards than Canada geese, which can reach 20 pounds. Waterfowl population estimates are often based on banding and harvest data, but ...
7 questions about Freedmen answered - High Country News
Oct 11, 2021 · After more than a century of disenfranchisement, Freedmen are gaining ground. Earlier this week, journalist Allison Herrera reported that the Indian Health Service has decided that Seminole ...
Diverted, drained and dwindling: What’s the fate of New Mexico’s …
Jan 14, 2021 · The Rio Grande used to provide water on a bell curve, with powerful floods in the spring and summer and lower and slower flows in the winter. Now the dams release about 20% of what naturally ...