Conservation

Taking into account anticipated mortality rates, Zack Bashoor estimates that the regeneration process will yield approximately one and a quarter million trees over a span of three years.

Supporters say proposal would put landscape protection ‘on equal footing’ with grazing and drilling.

As the threatened grizzly bear population grows, interactions with ranchers and cattle have prompted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to sign off on up to 72 bear kills over the next decade.

Conservationists and government accountability advocates pushed back on attacks of a proposed Bureau of Land Management rule that would clarify the BLM’s authority and duty to restore and conserve public lands as mandated under an existing law.

Limiting the government’s authority to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act, the Supreme Court ended a nearly two-decade-old dispute Thursday.

Congressman Matt Rosendale continued to deride the Department of Interior and its efforts to better conserve public lands and protect natural resources in a Wednesday hearing.

The state plans to reintroduce wolves to the southern Rocky Mountains in Colorado by the end of the year as voters mandated.

Steve Kelly writes, "Today’s propaganda is sophisticated and abstract, designed to mislead the (fear-ridden) public into believing government nonsense about 'forest resilience treatments' to 'restore these lands back to health.'"

Four months after the state of Montana took a review board to court regarding selenium pollution in Lake Koocanusa, four conservation groups are suing not only the review board but also a Canadian coal mining company and the Lincoln County commission.

California, Arizona and Nevada announced Monday they have come up with a plan to save 3 million acre-feet of water by 2026 to help bolster the dwindling Colorado River and lakes Mead and Powell, which 40 million people in the West depend on for water.