A new analysis, updated in December 2025, by the National Parks Conservation Association reveals more than 1,200 mine claims exist within the boundaries of units managed by the National Park Service.
Free land claims have a long history in the U.S., going back as far as the 1862 Homestead Act that granted citizens and ...
A hiker admires the view on the way to the Lower Ice Lake Basin in Colorado’s San Juan National Forest. (Paxson Woelber/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) DENVER (CN) — A U.S. attorney told a ...
Two cases before Canada’s Supreme Court raise the novel question of whether competing claims made by different Indigenous Nations for the same land should be considered separately or litigated all ...
The lands at issue in Cowichan are situated in the delta of the Fraser River. About 35 kilometers upstream lies the city of ...