Federal Judge Sam Haddon ruled that the Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it adopted the latest travel plan for the Lewis and Clark National Forest in 2007.
Much of the nation may be snow-weary, but farmers and ranchers who rely on winter snowpack in the northern Rockies for irrigation during the dry months of the growing season could face water shortages this summer unless more snow arrives soon.
Montana's gray wolf population continued to grow in 2009, but at a much slower rate thanks to the state's first hunting season and repeated clashes with livestock that prompted agencies to order the killing of 145 wolves.
Written by SAMANTHA ABERNETHY, Casper Star-Tribune
Lawyers for the state of Wyoming and the Colorado Mining Association argued before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday that a 2001 federal rule banning construction of new roads on National Forest land violates the law.
The Utah Senate has agreed to challenge Washington by condemning federal lands that the state needs to access state school-trust lands for mineral developments.
A federal agency is pressing the city of Flagstaff to offer potable water for snowmaking at Arizona Snowbowl that does not come directly from reclaimed wastewater.
In addition, Snowbowl could get government aid to cover the $11 million in higher costs for the water over 20 winters.
An environmental group is challenging plans by the Interior Department to classify sage grouse as merely a candidate for protection under the Endangered Species Act and not list the bird as threatened or endangered.
The Obama administration could support the mandate in U.S. Sen. Jon Tester's forest bill to log a set number of acres every year as a pilot project, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said here Saturday.
The Interior Department said Friday that the greater sage grouse, a dweller of the high plains of the American West, was facing extinction but would not be designated an endangered species for now.
Anglers will gain permanent access to a mile-long stretch of the North Platte River known for its blue-ribbon trout fishing if the U.S. Bureau of Land Management can swing the funding, the director of the Wyoming office of The Conservation Fund said.
Montana’s top wildlife official acknowledged Friday that the state has too many wolves on the landscape, so he’s implementing a new strategy that will allow problem wolves to be killed more quickly by federal agents.
A recent Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality citation is just part of a series of problems Williams Production Co. has had with handling water produced by coal-bed methane wells in the Powder River Basin, state and federal documents show.
The Department of Energy filed a petition to withdraw its Nuclear Regulatory Commission license application for the Yucca Mountain, Nev., radioactive waste repository Wednesday afternoon.
Two House Republicans yesterday introduced legislation that would require the Justice Department to publicly disclose reimbursements it pays out to environmental groups and others that sue the federal government under the Equal Access to Justice Act.
Written by MICHAEL GIBNEY, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
A report released Tuesday by the National Center for Conservation Science and Policy suggests that drought conditions and flammable forest fuels are a more likely contributor to the American Northwest's wildfire rate than an increase in the bark beetle population.
Lawyers for senior water-rights owners sued the state government Monday in La Plata County and five towns, saying the state engineer is failing to protect water-rights owners from gas and oil companies.
Long frustrated by Washington's control over much of their state, Utah legislators are proposing a novel way to deal with federal land -- seize it and develop it.
Wyoming faces the likelihood of a grasshopper outbreak this summer, which would strain the ability of landowners, county districts and governments to pay for combating the destructive insects, pest control officials said Tuesday.
