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Environmentalists are joining forces with a seemingly unlikely coalition of ranchers, hunters and rich landowners to try to buy out the mineral leases that oil and gas companies purchase from the federal government on public lands.

In the past, environmentalists have bought out landowners...

Thirteen years after the government listed Canada lynx as a threatened species, wildlife advocates on Thursday asked a federal judge to force the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to finish its long-awaited recovery plan for the snow-loving wild cats.

Four groups represented by the Western...

As the battle over protections for wolves in Wyoming continues, more groups who want the state to take over management of the animals have entered the legal fray.

U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson has allowed the Wyoming Wolf Coalition, made up of county governments and sportsmen groups,...

Kill the bills, not the buffalo.

That was the message of many Native American leaders who spoke at the Rally for the Future of Montana’s Buffalo, held Tuesday in the Capitol rotunda.

During this session, legislators have proposed a dozen bills that would affect bison in varying...