As wolves reintroduced into the Northern Rockies push west through the Cascade Range, the states of Oregon and Washington are telling the federal government they can handle it from here, thanks.
Both states have already taken over the hard part, riding herd on the conflict between wolves...
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is urging ranchers and other landowners to consider leaving water in their tanks to help wildlife in the current drought even after they move their livestock off the land.
Laramie Game Warden Bill Haley says many areas inhabited by wildlife are now...
Gov. Gary Herbert and a Native American tribe will sign a memorandum of understanding Wednesday that binds them together in an attempt to secure water rights for the group in western Utah.
The Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation hopes the agreement between its approximately 500...
More than a dozen logging, ranching and off-highway vehicle (OHV) groups yesterday filed a lawsuit challenging the Forest Service's new planning rule, the latest move in a decadelong legal battle over management of the nation's 193 million acres of forests and grasslands.
Las Vegas isn’t nearly done with Snake Valley — or its water.
The issue of whether groundwater in the arid Snake Valley that straddles the Utah-Nevada line can be pumped and piped to Las Vegas could land before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Twenty-two House Democrats yesterday asked the Obama administration to abandon what they slammed as its "flawed" 2011 review of the Keystone XL pipeline and to conduct a new environmental study that "does not presuppose the development" of heavy Canadian oil regardless of whether the project is...
Bison could roam year-round in large areas adjacent to Yellowstone National Park under a proposal released Monday by Montana officials who want to further ease restrictions on the iconic, burly animals.
For decades migrating bison have been slaughtered or hazed back into the park to...
When state and federal officials swooped into Salmon, Idaho, in 1992 to herald a new effort to help restore the Lemhi River's damaged salmon and steelhead habitat, Don Olson feared it was yet another bureaucratic takeover of his valley.
Olson, who runs 500 head of cattle in this isolated...
Federal regulators have given final approval to genetically modified sugar beets.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service gave nonregulated status Thursday to Monsanto's "Roundup Ready" sugar beets.
