San Jose firefighters put out a fire that impacted 20 acres of open land on Sunday afternoon, the fire department said.

Land trusts throughout California work locally and in unison to create a network of protected private lands across the state. Federal agencies like the US Forest Service manage more than 45% of ...

Cape Cod is blessed to have a dozen conservation trusts overseeing hundreds of acres of protected land. Here are some of the guided hikes ― and nature-related volunteer opportunities ― planned ...

will come from land previously protected by the National Forest System. Rollins’ office states that 66.9 million acres of NFS land have been designated “very high or high wildfire risk” and ...

Nine states have set goals to conserve 30 percent of their land by 2030. Maryland got there first. By Cara Buckley Photographs and Video by Andrew Mangum The protected land includes a one-acre ...

A land swap proposal in St. Johns County is sparking backlash and concern about the future of protected land. The plan would trade 600 acres from the Guana River Wildlife Management Area for about ...

Local land trust Mississippi Valley Conservancy (MVC) has purchased 1,600 acres of rugged land along the lower Kickapoo River for permanent protection. The site, just north of Wauzeka in Crawford ...