Application maps show about a 500-foot buffer between the residual minerals pile’s proposed expansion and the wilderness area, and slightly less than that between the larger mining area and the ...

403, Molalla Wild and Scenic Rivers Act H.R. 1415 and S. 764, Chetco River Protection Act H.R. 3436 and S. 2001, Rogue Wilderness Expansion Act of 2011 H.R. 1414 and S. 765, Oregon Caves ...

Americans generally thought of the frontier as a primeval wilderness, where men could live close to nature and be purified of civilization's corruption. Many thought of the West as a social safety ...

The new Bryant Creek State Park near Ava, in southwest Missouri. The area is the 13th in the state to be designated based on ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Air Force today under the Freedom of Information Act for failing to release public records about a proposed expansion of military ...

Environmental groups claimed the federal government's approval of the project wasn't in step with the Species at Risk Act because it will destroy a large swath of chinook salmon habitat, which ...

A couple more corners of the rapidly developing Ozarks just received designation (and protection) as wild areas.

The David Suzuki Foundation, the Georgia Strait Alliance, the Raincoast Conservation Foundation and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee filed a legal challenge last ... The environmental groups ...