Governor Gordon launches first local area working group for Platte Valley Mule Deer Corridor
The working group will review the effectiveness of corridor designation on the migratory herd and evaluate the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s draft risk assessment report. It will also make…
Read More...With tribe’s help, trout thrives in remote Nevada lake
A half-century after being added to the endangered species list, Lahontan cutthroat trout are thriving with help from a Native American tribe at a remote lake in northern Nevada.
Read More...High tech comes to biodiversity protection
Habitat conservation and protection of biodiversity is of growing importance for many states. In Nevada, the effort is being backed up with new high-tech tools designed to guide strategies for…
Read More...Ranchers combine cattle, conservation and logging to save birds
[Rancher Dusty] Downey is among 82 ranchers from Texas to the Dakotas using protocols designed by the National Audubon Society to reinvigorate grassland ecosystems to increase populations of imperiled birds.
Read More...Grizzly bear killed by wildlife officials after killing cow
Wildlife officials say they have killed a grizzly bear after it killed a cow on private land in southwestern Montana outside Yellowstone National Park. The adult male bear had killed…
Read More...Not easy eating green: Herbivores most at risk of extinction
Although scientists often worry most about the loss of the world’s predators, a comprehensive new study finds that plant-eating herbivores are the animals most at risk of extinction. About 1…
Read More...Wildlife agencies float definition of ‘habitat’ in ESA
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are proposing to define “habitat” in the Endangered Species Act for the first time, in response to a 2018 Supreme Court…
Read More...Washington kills member of wolf pack preying on cattle
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has killed one of the three members of an endangered wolf pack in the northeastern corner of the state in an attempt to…
Read More...In western Colorado, wary ranchers eye wolves’ arrival and fear urban voters will introduce more
Ballot measure to widen wolves’ comeback could threaten partnership between conservation community and agriculture. Colorado’s statewide wolf-reintroduction ballot initiative is rankling rural communities, rekindling old conflicts over the purpose of…
Read More...Rare leopard frog found beyond its known range in Southwest
A rare frog has been found beyond its known range in the Southwest. A U.S. Forest Service volunteer recently photographed a Chiricahua leopard frog in an earthen stock tank near…
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