America’s crop cousins are numerous, imperiled, and more needed than ever
The plight of America’s crop wild relatives is an overlooked subtheme in the era of human-driven biodiversity loss. A new study outlines how poorly protected these plants are: More than half of…
Read More...Former Interior Secretary Salazar sees conservation as a way to close divides: physical and social
Two years ago, Ken Salazar co-founded the Salazar Center for North American Conservation. It is his hope that with the country more polarized than ever, Americans can find common ground on…
Read More...Forest OKs part of south Crazy Mountains land exchange
Following public opposition, the Custer Gallatin National Forest has abandoned a controversial portion of its proposed south Crazy Mountains land exchange, but will move ahead with the rest. The agency is…
Read More...Grand Junction is ‘darn hard to get to’: ranchers split on public lands agency’s move west
The Bureau of Land Management is moving from Washington D.C. to Grand Junction, Colorado. Ranchers, some of the constituents with whom the agency works most closely, are divided on the…
Read More...Award-winning documentary explores native food sovereignty on the Crow Reservation
In some Native communities getting to a grocery store can take up to an hour and requires access to a vehicle. And there is no guarantee that the food there…
Read More...America’s dwindling grasslands require action
(Opinion) The bipartisanship of conservation must be summoned once again to restore America’s most endangered ecosystems — our prairies and grasslands. The challenges facing the Great Plains are steep and demand…
Read More...Scientists say Washington wildfire management must go beyond forests
Better management of dry rangelands east of the Cascades is key to slowing catastrophic fires. Many of Washington’s largest fires have burned through rangeland, not timber forests, particularly during the…
Read More...High-resolution land value maps reveal underestimation of conservation costs in the United States
This paper presents high-resolution maps of the estimated value of private lands in the contiguous United States. The estimates permit the prediction of the cost of conservation interventions at a…
Read More...Wild horses and burros are threatening western lands as population overwhelms landscape
The population has more than doubled in just the past 10 years and continues to grow at a rate of 10 to 15 percent annually. This number includes the more…
Read More...Drones, mites, electromagnetic energy — Wyoming’s war on invasives
Like many states in the West, Wyoming is experiencing a troubling trend: invasive annual grasses are invading healthy sagebrush range. To help pinpoint these infestations before they become too large to…
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