Managing public lands: the evolution of the Bureau of Land Management and its role in protecting vast areas of federal land across the nation. Saving the bobwhite quail: the first in a series on protecting vital native grassland habitat for a declining species – this story from the pine savannas of South Carolina. Local communities in northern New Mexico press their case for expanding the Pecos Wilderness to protect a watershed essential to a broad landscape stretching into southern Texas. Scientists study how butterflies use an elegantly efficient organ to sip nectar.
Port Arthur, Texas, terminus point for Keystone XL crude, is also the home of Hilton Kelley, a local activist with plenty to say about life in the shadow of big oil.
The pipeline would carry tar sands oil to Beaumont and Port Arthur, Texas, where refineries are the core of the region’s oil-based economy.
A new documentary explores one man’s personal challenge to the power of the oil industry and the KXL Pipeline.
With TransCanada using eminent domain to seize their land for the Keystone Pipeline route, Texans like Julia Trigg Crawford cry foul.
