Interior

<p Photo A fishhook from the early half of the 19th century from the Andover Newton collection at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. Credit Peabody Essex Museum, Deposit of the Andover Newton Theological School, 1976 NEWTON, Mass. — A 210-year-old seminary here that is in the process of […]

<p Juan Fermin was anxious that he might be assaulted because of his job — selling tickets for sightseeing cruises of New York Harbor. Approaching tourists at Manhattan’s southern edge hardly seems dangerous. But it places Mr. Fermin in the midst of an escalating and at times dangerous turf battle […]

<p Photo BP’s Deepwater Horizon drill rig exploding in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Credit Gerald Herbert/Associated Press Seven years ago, a BP oil well blew out off Louisiana, causing the Deepwater Horizon drill rig to explode, killing 11 workers and releasing several million barrels of toxic crude oil […]

<p The cabinets and shelves of the National Wildlife Property Repository, just northeast of Denver, are crammed with stuffed monkeys and ivory carvings, snow leopard coats and dried seal penises, chairs with tails and lamps with hooves. Most of them are contraband, seized at airports in New York City, Los […]

<p Photo A wolf from a den within Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in Alaska. A study found that limiting the population of wolves outside the preserve affected those within its boundaries. Credit Drew Rush/National Park Service Within the 2.5 million acres of the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in central Alaska, […]

<p Photo Credit Leslie Herman SONOMA, Calif. — Should the federal government encourage the slaughter of a living symbol of the American West? While blunt, this question is unfortunately not hyperbole when it comes to America’s wild horses. This week the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment that would eliminate […]

<p This week, we visit three national monuments (more than two dozen are under review by the Trump administration and could be made smaller and opened to logging and mining): Gold Butte in Nevada (below), Bears Ears in Utah and Berryessa Snow Mountain in California. It was 105 degrees, and […]

<p WASHINGTON — Ryan Zinke, a former member of the Navy SEALs and lifelong Montana outdoorsman who now heads the Interior Department, loves to compare himself to Theodore Roosevelt, the father of American conservation. “I’m a Teddy Roosevelt guy!” the interior secretary said in an April announcement that he would […]

<p Photo Credit Louisa Bertman There has been much ado over the past few months about the declarations of fashion designers regarding the current administration, but they are not the only members of the fashion world who have been politicized by the actions of President Trump. The outdoor apparel sector […]

<p Photo Yellowstone’s rare white wolf, an elderly alpha female who hikers found near death in April. A necropsy has determined she that she was shot illegally. Credit Neal Herbert/Yellowstone National Park A rare white female wolf that hikers found as she lay dying last month on the north side […]