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Acting on disparate petitions from Northern Rockies states, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service OK’d Montana and Wyoming propositions, but dismissed Idaho’s plans.

Idaho’s audacious bid to strip grizzly bears of Endangered Species Act protection was rejected by the Biden administration Friday.

New research diving into the human factors impacting wildlife conservation found that grizzly bear management is less polarized than researchers originally thought.

Republicans are hoping to get some support from Democrats on bills setting policy around grizzly bears post-delisting from the Endangered Species Act.

Chris Servheen, the former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grizzly bear recovery coordinator, fought to remove grizzlies from the endangered species list — until Montana Republicans changed his mind.

A resolution to create a target level for the Great Salt Lake was voted down by a Senate committee despite widespread public support.

State leaders say they want native perspectives included in conversations about the lake, but action to date shows otherwise.

Salt Lake City's namesake is evaporating, and with it a resource crucial to the West's economy, weather and health — not to mention millions of migratory birds.

How to divide Colorado River cuts: A breakdown of how California's proposed water reductions compare with an offer submitted by six other states.

Lake Powell’s existential crisis is a unique opportunity to save a treasured landscape.

“We can move water, and we’ve proven our desire to do it. I think it would be foolhardy to dismiss it as not feasible,” said Richard Rood, professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan. “But we need to know a lot more about it than we currently do.”

As the Colorado River crisis worsens, an unregulated housing development faces a reckoning.

Scientists and companies are scrambling to find new ways to squeeze more rain from the skies as climate change intensifies drought.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Shoshone Field Office has scheduled both in-person and virtual open-house meetings to help evaluate the proposed Lava Ridge Wind Project, which calls for installing up to 400 wind turbines on federal, state and private lands northeast of Twin Falls.

A federal judge in Nevada on Monday upheld the federal government’s approval of the largest proposed lithium mine in the nation, dismissing arguments that the Thacker Pass project would degrade nearby aquifers, air quality, and habitat for the imperiled greater sage grouse.

President Joe Biden is expected to designate land in the Mojave Desert as the next national monument. Advocates ramped up their push for those protections as renewable energy developers began eyeing parts of an area that Native American tribes hold central to their beliefs about creation.

Modern drilling capabilities developed by the oil and gas industry are opening the gateway to deep underground geothermal energy.

A recent study connecting natural gas stoves to childhood asthma is flawed, officials for Colorado’s gas industry say. But scientists behind the study stand by their work.

In 2023, operators plan to retire 15.6 gigawatts of electric-generating capacity in the United States, mostly natural gas-fired (6.2 GW) and coal-fired (8.9 GW) power plants.

The company said it would slow its shift to lower-carbon energy, increasing spending on the oil-and-gas production that helped push the company to a record profit last year.

Wyoming’s effort to sort out Native Americans’ off-reservation hunting rights in the wake of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Herrera v. Wyoming, has lost official tribal support.

Jan. 2 marked the first anniversary since CSKT officially took over management of the Bison Range from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, bringing the land back into tribal control.

Fifteen Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million in federal money this year for water rights settlements, the Biden administration announced Thursday.

A federal appeals court has sided with environmentalists, ruling that the U.S. government failed to consider the cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions that would result from the approval of nearly 200 drilling permits in an area surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

During the time that deaths from addiction and suicide among white Americans rose by about 9%, deaths among Native Americans shot up by about 30%, a new study shows.

More and more, hospitals across Montana are using Native American liaisons to increase and promote the education and outreach to local Native communities.

A journalist’s guide to reporting on institutions that still hold Native American remains, using ProPublica’s NAGPRA database as a starting point.

The legislature is considering a new proposal to free up vacant parcels of state-owned land that could be leased or sold at a discount for affordable housing projects. If passed, one project near Vail would build 80 units of affordable housing in the first phase, and potentially hundreds more.

The measure’s smooth sailing through the House comes as trespass is on the minds of Wyoming hunters and ranchers following a corner-crossing criminal trespass trial in Carbon County.

A new study shows that eating a single serving of freshwater fish in the U.S. can be equal to drinking a month’s worth of water laced with “forever chemicals.”

Utah’s bison are roaming into places where they aren’t wanted. One lawmaker is proposing year-round hunting to keep bison off rangeland used by ranchers.

The two males, the only GPS-tracked wolves in Colorado, will provide CPW with insight on future wolf behavior in the state.

"Yew plant is a common ornamental shrub-like plant used in landscaping. But it's also very toxic to animals.”

A Colorado county has seen emergency calls double this winter, threatening to desensitize dispatchers and divert limited resources from true emergencies.

Snow totals have surpassed the 300-inch mark in parts of the high country, and that’s just fine.

The 72-year-old is now donating a gift of the best of those photographs to the state he has called home for nearly half a century. He is giving his life’s work to History Colorado and thus to the people of Colorado. It will be free for anyone who wants to see Fielder’s work digitally. It will also be part of rotating displays at History Colorado.