Land Development

Conservation groups are suing the federal government for failing to protect a national trail in the Mountain West that they say is under ‘eco-assault’ due to industrial development.

This is the time of year when wildflowers are coloring fields and forests across the Mountain West. But one rare flower that grows in a small corner of the region is threatened by development and climate change.

There has been no major housing development built in the Truckee Meadows since the 2009 recession. Now a group of developers is looking to build roughly…