public lands

A Republican plan before the US Senate to sell millions of acres of federal public lands in the west to developers has been removed from President Trump’s big tax and spending bill.

The idea is to sell off millions of acres of lands held by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service, to help alleviate the nation’s housing shortage and the federal deficit. Interested parties could nominate parcels to be auctioned off for development.

Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.

The Washington state Department of Natural Resources manages many popular trails and campgrounds, which have seen a 21% surge in recreational use.

Longtime State Rep. Frank Chopp reflects on growing up in Bremerton, and efforts to safeguard the Illahee Preserve.

A year after President Biden's Earth Day visit to Seattle where he announced an order to identify and protect older forests, the results from the government's first-ever national inventory of mature and old-growth forests on federal land is being released.

National Park Service Director Chuck Sams says he and other federal officials are committed to boosting the role Native American tribes can play in managing public lands.

Gov. Jay Inslee has turned his proverbial dial another notch toward normal. The governor announced Monday afternoon that some recreation may resume across…

The Trump administration has proposed its budget for fiscal year 2019. It would once again gut funding for a multi-million-dollar federal conservation and…

Uncertainty reigns about which federal public lands will be open and which closed if the congressional budget standoff leads to a partial government...