On these hot summer days, families and dogs find cool respite on the 200-yard sandy shoreline of Lake Tahoe’s Kiva Beach. Swimmers head out to floating docks on Fallen Leaf Lake. And backpackers and ...

The original provision proposed as part of the federal budget bill would have required selling Forest Service and BLM public lands, including hundreds of acres in the Los Padres National Forest, for ...

Update: This story has been updated with additional information. Millions of acres of national forests and other public lands could be sold for housing development, per language inserted into the U.S.

Three million acres of public land across California and 10 other Western states won’t be auctioned to the highest bidder following bipartisan backlash and widespread public rebuke. But mass sell-off ...

Much of the land used by Southern Californians for hiking, camping and other outdoor recreation belongs to Uncle Sam. But environmentalists and outdoor enthusiasts fear the budget reconciliation bill ...