The farm bill's fate continues to be murky as the holidays rapidly approach, Senate and House agriculture leaders signaled yesterday.
While the White House and some members of Congress are open to including the farm bill in a "fiscal cliff" deal, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has...
Although he proposed to his wife on a mountaintop and claims to have hiked more wilderness than any other elected official, Montana's Rep.-elect Steve Daines (R) remains a riddle on some of the Treasure State's most vexing natural resource issues.
The Colorado River Basin will see a supply-demand imbalance of 3.2 million acre-feet of water by the year 2060, according to a study released Wednesday by the federal Bureau of Reclamation and the seven states in the affected region.
In making that announcement, U.S. Secretary of the...
Twelve dusty miles separate lucky rancher from unlucky in this state's parched northeast corner.
Lucky is Steve Tapia and his neighbors who collect $450,000 a year by leasing space on their sprawling ranches to an Australian wind developer that's planted 90 turbines there.
Federal agencies and conservation groups today announced the establishment of the first "stronghold" to protect the lesser prairie chicken, a major step in a multistate effort to preserve the species' native grasslands and prairie habitat.
The Bureau of Land Management today said it has...
Water transfers between agricultural and urban areas can create conflict in the West, but they promise to remain a key tool as water-scarce states deal with growing populations and new industries, according to a new report by the Western Governors' Association.
A series of six public meetings in Utah, Wyoming and Idaho will be held in December to detail a proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to buy conservation easements along the 500-mile stretch of the Bear River.
The watershed conservation plan, still in draft form, envisions...
Colorado ranchers and sportsmen have hatched a novel plan to protect 220,000 acres of high-country public land from oil and gas drilling: Buy back the leases from energy companies.
The opening offer — $2.5 million, or $2 per acre, the amount the companies paid for the leases when they...
The Utah Legislature’s controversial plan to transfer millions of federal acres of mountains, desert and grasslands to the state will be extremely complicated to implement and could threaten revenue from the federal government now flowing into the state, according to a new study.
