BILLINGS COUNTY, N.D. — When it comes to building a bridge, there are two obvious necessities: people and equipment. If that bridge is in the western North Dakota Badlands, a crew of pack mules can ...

In 2022, a conservation nonprofit called the Deschutes Trails Coalition (DTC) started working with the U.S. Forest Service to build and maintain hundreds of miles of hiking trails in central Oregon.

“They have betrayed the public trust and poisoned the well,” says a wildlife advocate It’s been 12 years since Steamboat Springs voters directed local lodging taxes toward trail construction and half ...