Rewilding Institute

Basic due diligence with regard to the intersection of existing and impending federal policies as it relates to our National Forests were never considered for the Arizona Alpine Trail (cross-country ATV). Learn more and take action: buff.ly/y8S4KcI

After losing a recent court case, Homeland Security turns to the Supreme Court to allow it to continue bulldozing both private and public lands in the #BigBend Sector.

Longtime wilderness advocates John Davis and Tom Butler explore how rewilding benefits natural and human communities. Event: Whallonsburg, NY

Trump's plan to build 27 miles of border wall in Arizona's San Rafael Valley is aimed at keeping immigrants out, but it comes with one major complication: How are the local jaguars supposed to mate? Grace Kuhlenschmidt traveled to Arizona to see how this wall controversy is playing out on the ground

In the latest episode of The Nature Of podcast, Atmos Editor-in-Chief Willow Defebaugh speaks with conservationist and former Patagonia CEO Kris Tompkins about rewilding as a way to stay connected to the living world, even in the face of grief and loss.

The Trump administration suffered a blow on Oct. 2 when a federal court ordered a temporary halt to the construction of the president’s border wall and associated infrastructure in the Big Bend region of Texas.

Border Patrol agents arrested people protecting the tree on the morning of Oct. 5, ending a months-long protest that had halted border wall construction in the area.

Public opposition against Trump administration’s proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule is near-universal.

Ken Sleight, the river guide and activist who inspired the character Seldom Seen Smith in Edward Abbey's novel "The Monkey Wrench Gang," passed away on October 2.

New law aims to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions by putting #wildlife crossings and #connectivity infrastructure into long-term highway planning and funding decisions

California is set to bring back a program aimed at reducing conflict between wild animals and people.

Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper #fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big #dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing northeastern streams and rivers—one tiny dam at a time.

With around 30% of India’s #tigers living outside its 58 tiger reserves, landscape-scale management that maintains and reconnects wildlife corridors is crucial to keep both people and tigers safe, as well as careful monitoring of dispersing tigers and better management of human-wildlife conflict.

A new scientific publication details surprising results from marine surveys of Patagonia’s #kelp forests, comparing current conditions to data collected 50 years ago. While these vast underwater ecosystems remain largely intact, several species are in sharp decline due to human activities.

Fish and Wildlife Service memo calls for change in what it means to ‘take’ an endangered species — reinterpreting the law to mean that harming or killing an endangered animal would no longer be considered illegal unless the action was specifically intended to cause harm or death.

An escalating confrontation on Native land southwest of Tucson threatens to upend decades of uneasy cooperation between the Tohono O’odham Nation and the United States: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...

In the past five years, 324 #tortoises and #iguanas have been captured from the Ecuadorian islands for an international market willing to pay thousands of dollars for the archipelago’s unique species.

Interior Department orders BLM officials to identify public lands for #AI data centers, while USGS publishes its own analysis of AI energy infrastructure on public lands #PublicLands

In the two years since #dam removal on the Klamath River in California and Oregon, fall-run chinook #salmon have come back in full force, but water allotments, remaining dams, and drought conditions still pose challenges for recovery.

New polling from the Trust for Public Land shows bipartisan support for #conservation is climbing, even as federal agencies fast-track leasing and roll back environmental review.

The temporary restraining order marked a major victory for American Prairie, which has spent more than 20 years restoring #buffalo in Montana.

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday directing the interior department to consider de-listing gray #wolves from the Endangered Species Act and to contemplate whether the agency could make it easier to authorize killing them.

Nearly three decades after living 738 days in an ancient redwood, Julia Butterfly Hill sees the same resolve in activists occupying cottonwoods along the U.S.-Mexico border. #treesit

The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule covers 44.7 million acres of National Forest land and is currently being reexamined by the U.S. Forest Service. See what onX data reveals about these areas and participate in the public comment process: buff.ly/wpdcUo7