With new voter-approved funding, Texas is poised to purchase thousands of acres for a historic expansion of its 88-park system. Among the most recent additions to the state park system ...

James Watt led a similar effort to privatize natural resources for mining, energy development, logging, and sprawl.

The company, which controls the El Rico Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA), still plans to allow so much groundwater ...

The Trump administration banned Chinese investors from owning land near U.S. military sites, using an overstated map of their ...

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As the federal government moves to tighten restrictions on foreign ownership of U.S. farmland, debate is growing over how ...

Utah’s political leadership is regrouping after three failed attempts to wrest public lands from the federal government this ...

Some in Congress are floating the idea of selling government land—especially in the West—as a way to pay down federal debt ...

A lawyer, scientist and former manager at the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services will become the new director of the Department of State Lands. Kaitlin Lovell of Colton, Oregon, begins her ...

The denial to renew eight exploratory leases at the base of Casper Mountain means a project seeking to mine gravel on state-owned lands is dead.

This law is rarely enforced, providing an incomplete picture of how much American land is owned by which foreign entities. State regulations provide little extra security.

The Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) of 1978 is the only federal law overseeing foreign acquisition of agricultural land, relying on foreign entities to self-report farmland ...