The search for fossil fuels across the American west is turning some of the nation's last open spaces into industrial zones and putting protected areas and wildlife risk.

WASHINGTON - The San Jacinto and Santa Rosa mountains - as well as millions more acres of national monuments - could gain extra funding through a new conservation foundation.

WASHINGTON -- Edward Norton, who has played a neo-Nazi, a card shark and a drug dealer in Hollywood movies, is taking on a new project: land conservation.

From the sidewalks of inner-city Milwaukee to Alaska's rugged White Mountains, thousands of volunteers will pick up litter, clear trails and repair fences to celebrate National Public Lands Day this S

Mike Satter and his pals like to get dirty.

They pick up trash. They build fences. They cart dinosaur bones. They tidy up trails. They dust off ruins.

CHACO CANYON, NM - This May the nation celebrates the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown as the first permanent English settlement in America.

CANYONS OF THE ANCIENTS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Colo. — Linda Farnsworth picked her way across a field of loose rocks, down a steep slope under the overhang of sandstone cliffs.