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A foster care program on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota is attracting attention from officials elsewhere as they search for ways to reduce trauma inflicted on Indigenous families, who’ve faced generations of high rates of family separation.

Montana is one of a handful U.S. states – along with Wyoming, Utah and North Dakota – considering legislation this year to keep more Native American children from enduring similar experiences by including provisions of the U.S. Indian Child Welfare Act in state law.

The mood about Kwiyagat Community Academy is upbeat though there are challenges finding licensed teachers in this remote corner of Colorado.

Canada's parks are growing ever more crowded, upsetting the balance between conservation and recreation.

The trailhead and campground at Calf Creek, a popular destination in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, is getting a makeover, but critics contend expansion is not the answer to increased visits.

It’s not hard to find misleading “no trespassing” and “private property” signs erected on public land in Wyoming, a tactic used to dissuade people from trekking onto property they can legally access. Soon, however, adjoining private landowners and others who post that type of erroneous signage could face big fines.

Six people have died in avalanches in the United States since the snow started to fly this fall. Every year, an average of 27 people – skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers, snowshoers – die this way.

Four days. Four helicopter rescues. Such was the weekend for Teton County Search and Rescue volunteers as powder hounds sought out backcountry turns.

Legislation seeks to create dedicated fee account for national forests to use on winter and recreational-related projects.

The owners of small outdoor-recreation businesses went before an Idaho Senate committee Monday to support legislation that would limit their legal liability when something goes awry on a trail ride, in whitewater rapids or on a hunting expedition.

More than half of all standing whitebark pine in the United States are dead, studies say. Half of the losses occurred within the last two decades, as white pine blister rust slowly marched across the West.

A fierce winter in Yellowstone National Park has forced bison north into the waiting rifles of tribal and state hunters.

A new study explores how packs change when activities like hunting and car accidents kill wolves.

A bear biologist, a rancher and an outfitting representative weigh in on Montana’s grizzly management plan.

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved a chronic wasting disease mitigation plan Thursday morning that could result in the lethal removal of dozens to hundreds of deer in the Slate Creek drainage of Idaho County.

The Biden administration called for regulatory changes Wednesday to encourage voluntary conservation projects on private land, partly by shielding owners from punishment if their actions kill or harm small numbers of imperiled species.

Colorado officials celebrated $125 million in new funding for a pilot program to rent Colorado River water for conservation amid drought.

An economist and an engineer propose a way to test higher water prices as a conservation strategy without hurting low-income users.

First came the pipeline to the Pacific Ocean. Then came nuclear-assisted groundwater mining. Now, forest thinning is the latest fantastical idea floated to rescue the Great Salt Lake. But research published last year shows thinning trees in the watershed won’t help the lake refill. In some cases, it could make things worse.

U.S. coal power has proven exceptionally hard to kill, in spite of market conditions and environmental regulations that have stripped it of its dominance in 15 short years.

In a Feb. 10 ruling, a Missoula judge found that the federal government’s environmental review of Signal Peak Energy’s proposal to expand the Bull Mountains Mine harbored “sufficiently serious” errors. The order effectively halts Signal Peak from mining federal coal until an environmental impact statement has been completed.

Utility-scale and rooftop solar, combined, supplied less than one percent of Wyoming's electricity in 2021. Only a handful of new projects have been approved statewide.

The Nature Conservancy is tapping local input to help identify “smart” siting for renewable energy in parallel with a federal push for solar farms.

Companies, homeowners complain of long delays; regulators, lawmakers consider actions to speed up connecting customers to grid.

Policymakers in Colorado envision a future with close to a million electric cars on the road by 2030. But before all those electric cars can hit the roadways, we’ll need a way to charge them. That includes in rural areas, not typically electric vehicle hotbeds.

The rare earths industry could grow in Wyoming amid rising demand for the materials.

Most everyone in Congress agrees that the U.S. needs to step up its game on securing critical minerals and overhauling the nation’s mining laws, but a House hearing Thursday showcased the pitfalls that could trip up those efforts as well as bipartisan opportunities.

The region’s popularity has seen a surge, sending real estate prices soaring and pushing locals out.

In the Pacific Northwest, ski resorts set aside spots in their parking lots for vans and R.V.s, creating overnight communities of skiers and riders. One writer toured three Oregon resorts to test the scene.

Overall World Cup winners Mikaela Shiffrin , Federica Brignone and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde are among nearly 200 athletes from multiple disciplines who have signed a letter addressed to the International Ski and Snowboard Federation demanding action over climate change .

As the state gets drier, and wildfires climb to higher elevations, snow is melting faster and earlier than before – even in the middle of winter.

Fire chiefs and lawmakers are pushing for a statewide board with power to define wildland-urban interface danger zones and impose preventive building codes.

Hunters protest a measure that would have justified “termination” of criminal trespass by landowners and their agents.

A new study supports what elk fanatics have long known: There are variations in how elk bugle in different parts of the country.

Photographs that capture traces of American industry, class divides, and westward expansion.