Thanks to the power of writer Wallace Stegner, Americans have for decades been able to put words to the importance wilderness holds in the nation’s history and imagination.

This is a green light for creating the largest-ever compensation fund for sex abuse claims.

The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

One-fifth of Earth's land could be restored to wilderness by reintroducing animals and improving management.

Jan. 11 marks the birthday of conservationist Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), who called for thinking about land as a living community to protect, not a resource to exploit.

Conservation or copper? A proposed mine in northern Minnesota pits industrial jobs against a thriving outdoor economy.

US ideas about conservation center on walling off land from use. That approach often means expelling Indigenous and other poor people who may be its most effective caretakers.