A level playing field

“You know, we're the first people of this country, yet we're still treated like secondhand citizens, always overlooked or stepped over, always an afterthought,” said Jeffrey Stiffarm, Fort Belknap Indian Community president.

Tribes lean into traditional knowledge to advance today’s needs.

A Q&A with the Indigenous Land Alliance of Wyoming’s Yufna Soldier Wolf.

Dax Hansen's family has been working the land along the Gila River for decades, but he's turned to methods used by Indigenous farmers for centuries.

The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe has long been concerned for the health of its 300 members living within sight of the mill, as well as the ecology of nearby Bears Ears National Monument.

“(The book) is about reclaiming your identity and also about how intergenerational trauma really does impact us in these invisible ways that are hard to explain to outsiders."

“It seems that despite its nod to traditional ecological knowledge, BLM does not consider relevant the extensive knowledge and expertise we have gained over millennia.”

Researchers have discovered that seven percent of the gas produced in the Uinta Basin is being leaked into the atmosphere.

Raton Basin’s surge in seismic activity since 2001 follows drilling of wastewater injection wells.

Notoriously difficult to track, methane emissions disproportionately fuel the climate crisis. As B.C. prepares for an uptick in gas projects, stricter regulations and existing technologies could help the province stick to its reduction targets.

A new study reveals that wastewater treatment plants need to be part of any serious plan to reduce methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

In 2022, U.S. natural gas consumption averaged a record 88.5 billion cubic feet per day — the highest annual natural gas consumption, according to records beginning in 1949.

Agriculture is often criticized as the state’s biggest water user, but irrigators face mounting pressure from rapid urban growth.

Low levels in the Rockport Reservoir revealed the foundations of the forgotten ghost town, Rockport.

A briefing from the drought integrated information center of the NOAA said there is wet relief on the way for Lake Powell, which typically gets its maximum flows well into July.

As of Monday, Colorado’s statewide snowpack was 127% of median from 1991 to 2020, according to SNOTEL data compiled by the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

OpenSnow forecasts precision snow reports for ski resorts across the country. And it all started with one lost powder day.

Another atmospheric river is hitting the state, raising flood risks as rain falls on deep snowpack. Rain on snow is also a growing problem as the planet warms.

Legislators and nonprofits are partnering on measures designed to lower zoning and construction barriers amid the state’s continuing housing crisis.

Bill would put state dollars into subsidies for housing set at prices affordable to low-income residents.

“We are literally victims of our own success. All our kids want to stay here, and other people want to move here. Perhaps if some of our surrounding states wouldn’t be so hostile to business, there wouldn’t be so many people moving here.”

Sublette County Board of Commissioners that has favored development on agricultural lands pivots, denying Joe Ricketts’s request to build out the riverbank at the head of the Hoback.

White River National Forest supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams has approved final plans for a road across federal land to access a proposed development of luxury homes above the Eagle River Valley.

Developers are proposing about nine acres of residences as one part of a larger development in the far west corner of Bozeman.

Dozens of water sources across Colorado previously thought to be safe would now violate the federal maximum contaminant level for PFAS, or toxic “forever chemicals,” under a new standard proposed Tuesday.

Park City officials enacted a drinking water regulation that prohibits using or selling a certain kind of ski wax they believe is causing contamination of groundwater wells and an aquifer. Fluoro ski wax, which is usually labeled with LF and HF on packaging, contains polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

Wildfire smoke emits a host of pollutants, but its impact on air is not closely monitored, a GAO report says.

Louie Delaware and his family said their idea to build a new “living in place home” helps soften the blow of what they lost in the 2021 fire.

Environmentalists said a deal involving the Canyon Fuel Co. of Utah marks the first time a coal company has voluntarily agreed to calculate the climate damages of its mining on federal land.

Wyoming's U.S. senators hope the ban would help domestic uranium mining resume.

Nearly a third of states have laws prohibiting certain foreign businesses and governments from buying agricultural lands within their borders, and more states are looking to join them.

For the last several years, the agency has used cameras placed throughout the state to record timed and motion-triggered images to count the number of wolves in Idaho. Critics have said its methods — in particular the motion-triggered photos — are seriously flawed.

The agency described bison as a keystone species that is “inextricably intertwined with Indigenous culture, grassland ecology and American history.”

A Missoula federal judge heard oral arguments last week on why the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has failed to recover the Bitterroot population of grizzly bears for the past two decades.

According to the National Ski Areas Association , daily lift tickets in the Rocky Mountain region have increased from an average price of $97 in 2013 to $197 in 2022. That figure aggregates prices from Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.