Life is on the move in our April issue. Every spring, Wyoming’s mule deer navigate deserts, highways and oil and gas fields to reach their summer range, and now their travel corridors are in need of protection. Can drones help mitigate predator-livestock conflicts?  Native plant landscaping is increasingly popular, but unregulated harvesting has environmental impacts and impinges on the rights of Indigenous people. Why do states own so much land inside reservation boundaries? We investigate natural gas exports and discuss where to build large-scale solar energy projects. Has Elko, Nevada’s National Cowboy Poetry Gathering lost touch with its ranching roots? During World War II, incarcerated Japanese Americans created bird pins of astonishing beauty. Youth lead the charge against climate change while grownups dither. Border walls and immigration laws should not make us forget our common humanity. There’s more than one way to appreciate the outdoors. And Terry Tempest Williams remembers Barry Lopez, a writer who helped us see the world, and ourselves, with fresh eyes.

Mule Deer 665 is brought in via helicopter for biological testing in early December near Superior, Wyoming. The doe caught researchers’ attention after she made a surprising migration, traveling more than 220 miles from Wyoming’s Red Desert to summer range near Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Mule Deer 665 is brought in via helicopter for biological testing in early December near Superior, Wyoming. The doe caught researchers’ attention after she made a surprising migration, traveling more than 220 miles from Wyoming’s Red Desert to summer range near Idaho Falls, Idaho. Credit: Ryan Dorgan

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