The Forest Service is cutting its seasonal workforce and public …
Oct 8, 2024 · This story was produced in collaboration with Vox.. Americans visit hiking and camping areas managed by the U.S. Forest Service more than 150 million times each year.
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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.
Questions about the LandBack movement, answered
Aug 22, 2022 · How can two little words have such combustible power, setting passions ablaze, threatening to undermine 500 years of written law, multigenerational ranching operations and modern-day sprawling ...
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 ...
Trump’s impact on Indian Country over four years
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The Gadsden flag is a symbol. But whose? - High Country News
May 18, 2020 · But when the protesters waved the Gadsden flag, Morigeau found the message confusing. The bright yellow banner is not a Civil War symbol; rather, its forthright message read like a dare, a taunt ...
‘Smoke Signals’ was needed, but it doesn’t hold up
Oct 1, 2019 · When Smoke Signals hit theaters, Indigenous people were thirsty for representation. Hell, we’re still thirsty. The lack of understanding of what it means to be Indigenous still looms large in ...