Letter: The model has worked well for 20 years and is one of the simplest and cheapest access frameworks in the world, writes Jon Moses of the Right to Roam Campaign
August 2023
Waymarks are important for all of us to enjoy the wild
Letters: Hiking should not be the exclusive preserve of a privileged few, says Aled Owen, while Pete Stockwell points out how moving cairns can be dangerous. Plus a letter from Austen Lynch
August 2022
Underfunded, rusting and fenced off, Britain’s parks are under attack
Dan Hancox
Teed off: golf courses fighting to retain their turf in Australian cities
The Ordnance Survey map change that put horse riders in danger
Public inquiry into permission to build hotel over 300-year-old footpath in Salford
July 2022
Public lands are Americans’ birthright. It’s our duty to defend them against new landgrabs
How one couple helped save vast areas of wilderness in the 1940s – and provided a map for protecting them today
June 2022
Cemeteries are peaceful, open spaces – they can be for the living too
Katherine Feeney
As backyards disappear, there’s a perfect antidote to the chaos of crowded, high-density, disconnected life
Queen’s ‘seabed rights’ swell to value of £5bn after auction of plots
British crown estate portfolio rises in value by 8.3% to £15.6bn
‘It wiped us out’: history of US forest mismanagement fans the flames of disaster
Residents of the New Mexico canyon scorched by the Hermits Peak and Calf Canyon fires blame the government for the acres they lost
November 2021
This land is your land
‘Heal the past’: first Native American confirmed to oversee national parks
The confirmation of Charles F. Sams III marks a symbolic moment for many Indigenous communities
September 2021
This land is your land
Wanderlust and stolen land: how to mindfully explore the American outdoors
This land is your land
‘It’s not sustainable’: overcrowding is changing the soul of US national parks
August 2021
Documenting American wilderness – in pictures
A selection of photographer Bob Wick’s images of the western United States
July 2021
North Dakota sues over Biden’s halt in oil and gas leases on public lands
State protests lost revenue and insists on right to control “its own natural resources”
June 2021
This land is your land
Activists fear Biden’s climate pledges are falling apart: ‘We aren’t seeing grit’
The president took swift action upon entering the White House, but recent developments raise concern his agenda has stalled
US politics live
Deb Haaland to reportedly ask Biden to restore national monument protections – as it happened
Donald Trump ‘drastically shrunk’ the size of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Escalante national monuments in 2017 – follow all the day’s news
This land is your land
The Everglades are dying. An alliance between Biden and Republicans could save them
Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a $3.4bn deal to restore the freshwater preserve and Biden has earmarked funds to help
April 2021
This land is your land
‘The earth holds so much power’: Deb Haaland visits sacred site Trump shrank
The interior secretary toured the Bears Ears national monument in Utah as she weighs Indigenous-led calls for it to be increased in size
March 2021
This land is your land
Fishermen's wives: how unsung efforts keep a way of life afloat
From Oregon to Massachusetts, fishermen’s wives associations are the backbone of their communities, acting as agents, support networks and agitators
