Imagine a corner of Nevada where the map still holds blank spaces—places without the grid of logging roads, without the noise of engines, where sagebrush stretches into mountains and piñon pine gives way to aspen and sky. Since 2001, more than three million acres of that landscape have been protected by the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a federal policy that closed large swaths of national forest to road building and commercial logging. The rule never stopped livestock grazing or mineral extraction; it simply made sure that if those activities happened, they couldn’t rely on freshly bulldozed roads slicing through some…

In the quiet corridors of the Sohana police station, a new complaint has begun to carve out a familiar but devastating story of trust betrayed, a story that now leaves a 27-year-old woman grappling with the physical and emotional wreckage of a relationship she believed was heading toward marriage. The woman, whose identity has been protected in the official records, has accused Arun Kumar, a resident of Sector 67 in Mohali, of sexually assaulting her on the false promise of marriage, and then callously walking away when she became pregnant. According to the First Information Report, the accused not only…