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Wolverines may return to Colorado

by Christine Peterson August 9, 2024August 12, 2024

But can they survive in the warming southern Rockies?

Boats carry Hanford Journey attendees down the Columbia River in Washington toward Hanford reactors, one that’s cocooned and another that’s decommissioned but still standing.
Posted inAugust 2024: In the Wake of the Floods

Indigenous celebration of Hanford remembers the site before nuclear contamination

by B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster August 1, 2024August 1, 2024

At the fourth annual Hanford Journey, Yakama Nation youth, elders and scientists share stories about a land that is a part of them.

Cars speed past wildlife fencing just west of Eagle Mountain, Utah.
Posted inAugust 2024: In the Wake of the Floods

How do you protect wildlife from sprawl?

by Ben Goldfarb August 1, 2024July 31, 2024

A fast-growing Utah exurb gets serious about migration corridors.

Posted inAugust 2024: In the Wake of the Floods

Fur-class travel, wonderful whippets, delinquent donkeys and a white buffalo

by Tiffany Midge August 1, 2024July 31, 2024

Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.

Posted inArticles

Project 2025’s extreme vision for the West

by Michelle Nijhuis and Erin X. Wong July 19, 2024August 9, 2024

The demolition of public lands, water and wildlife protections are part of conservatives’ plan for a second Trump term.

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When grasshoppers attack

by Christine Peterson July 10, 2024August 8, 2024

Is the cure for grasshopper outbreaks worse than the disease?

Posted inJuly 2024

The California artists illuminating kelp

by Kate Fishman July 1, 2024June 28, 2024

How art and science can build hope for a threatened underwater species.

Posted inArticles

Deer 255 reaches the end of her journey

by Michelle Nijhuis June 6, 2024August 8, 2024

The ungulate migrated farther than any deer known to science.

Posted inArticles

$350M in federal land sales likely to benefit Nevada public lands and wildlife

by Amy Alonzo June 5, 2024August 8, 2024

See what projects are expected to get the funding.

Posted inArticles

Parques y vida silvestre en Nevada se podrían beneficiar gracias a ventas de tierras federales

by Amy Alonzo June 5, 2024August 8, 2024

El estado espera recibir un ingreso proveniente de la Ley de Administración de Tierras Públicas del Sur de Nevada.

Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness

As the Gila Wilderness turns 100, the Wilderness Act is still a living law

by Marissa Ortega-Welch June 1, 2024June 2, 2024

Wilderness areas are changing in profound ways — and so are our ideas about them.

An uncollared female pronghorn near the fencing at the San Juan Solar project. Pronghorn have trouble jumping over fences and other barriers, making it hard for them to cope as their habitat shrinks.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness

The race to understand the risks of the energy transition for wildlife

by Sarah Tory June 1, 2024June 6, 2024

Researchers are trying to understand how utility-scale solar affects New Mexico pronghorn.

Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness

Elusive elephants, zany zebras and Idaho anti-anthropophagists

by Tiffany Midge June 1, 2024May 31, 2024

Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.

Posted inArticles

Killing one owl to save another

by Michelle Nijhuis May 10, 2024August 8, 2024

Is it ever the right thing to do? Two ethicists weigh in.

Posted inArticles

When is it appropriate to call out bad trail etiquette?

by Hannah Singleton May 7, 2024August 8, 2024

With more trail users than ever before, trail etiquette is important to preserve the places we love. But it doesn’t mean the same thing to every visitor.

Posted inArticles

Audio: The Joshua tree-yucca moth link

by Ruxandra Guidi May 2, 2024August 8, 2024

These desert species wouldn’t survive without the other. Can they weather climate change together?

A view over Iron Gate Dam outside of Hornbrook, California, in February. The reservoir’s water level has continued to fall since drawdown began in January.
Posted inMay 2024: A River Returns

Undamming the Klamath

by Nika Bartoo-Smith May 2, 2024May 2, 2024

Tribal nations are restoring the river while reclaiming and revitalizing their cultural heritage.

Scott Schuyler, a member of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe and its natural resources and cultural policy representative, stands by the site of the future wildlife crossing in Skagit Valley, Washington.
Posted inMay 2024: A River Returns

Tribes lead on wildlife passages

by Ben Goldfarb May 1, 2024May 8, 2024

How a new pot of federal funding could help reconnect Native lands.

Posted inMay 2024: A River Returns

Bird-naming brouhahas, buggy burritos and a goat-milking meetup

by Tiffany Midge May 1, 2024April 30, 2024

Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.

Posted inArticles

Wildlife habitat and tribal cultures threatened by Washington’s largest wind farm

by B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster April 26, 2024August 8, 2024

The newly approved renewable energy project is planned across an eco-corridor and ceremonial sites.

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