The Colorado River – A 2025 Recap

Turn on your tap, and there’s a good chance the water started high in a national forest. That’s no accident: the 1897 law governing our national forests made protecting water flows a core purpose. After a century of road building for logging and mining, the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule set out to protect a small percentage of National Forests with intact, backcountry ...

Meteorologists are forecasting a historically strong El Niño system this coming winter after a 2025 defined by prolonged drought and a weak snowpack, with a 95% chance of extreme precipitation. Cali...

The Roadless Rule is a landmark national policy adopted by the U.S. Forest Service in 2001 to maintain approximately 58.5 million acres of largely healthy, undeveloped National Forest System lands. The Rule accomplished this by prohibiting new road construction and commercial timber harvest in designated Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRAs) while allowing reasonable exemptions f...