Out West

The next group of gray wolves that Colorado’s wildlife agency will release in the state as part of a voter-approved reintroduction program will come from across the Canadian border.

A series of federal court decisions have found that a museum in Spain can keep its impressionist painting stolen from a Jewish family at the beginning of World War II.

Trump has distanced himself from the initiative, which diverges from the Republican party platform. But CNN found at least 140 Trump administration staffers worked on the plan.

The study also found that trees in a wildfire zone can die up to five years later, with islands of surviving trees shrinking in the years that followed.

The ruling strikes down a so-called trigger ban passed in 2007 that took effect when the U.S. Supreme Court effectively nullified Roe v. Wade in 2022.

A coalition of Colorado religious leaders on Tuesday endorsed a ballot measure that would remove language in the state Constitution banning same-sex marriage.

In addition to the Utah communities, Boulder, Colorado and Cincinnati, Ohio are moving forward in Sundance’s final phase of selection.

The U.S. Forest Service is set to take bids for two of the logging projects at issue within the month.

In Idaho, about 11 million acres of public land are available for livestock grazing. This year, approximately 191,280 acres of BLM land have burned.

Wildlife advocates said Monday that they were “devastated” by the death of a reintroduced wolf that was captured late last month following a series of livestock depredations in the Middle Park area.