A fast-growing Utah exurb gets serious about migration corridors.
Conservation Beyond Boundaries
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Will the Northwest Forest Plan finally respect tribal rights?
Tribal representatives are pushing the U.S. Forest Service to respect treaty rights and bring cultural fire back to the region’s forests.
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When grasshoppers attack
Is the cure for grasshopper outbreaks worse than the disease?
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What happens to birds when it’s smoky outside?
A community science initiative along the West Coast is using volunteer observations to study the effect of wildfire smoke on birds.
Posted inJuly 2024
Wilson’s phalarope to the rescue
A new Endangered Species Act petition could trigger major conservation actions to save the West’s saline lakes.
Posted inJuly 2024
In search of the continent’s largest shorebird
The elusive long-billed curlew finds refuge in fragmented grasslands.
Posted inJuly 2024
Pollution knows no borders
A long-awaited agreement will address Canadian mine waste flowing downriver into Montana
and Idaho.
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The theft of the commons
It’s time to turn away from land ownership and back to land relationship.
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Deer 255 reaches the end of her journey
The ungulate migrated farther than any deer known to science.
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The American Climate Corps take flight, with most jobs based in the West
Biden’s climate jobs program will put young people to work starting this summer.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness
As the Gila Wilderness turns 100, the Wilderness Act is still a living law
Wilderness areas are changing in profound ways — and so are our ideas about them.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness
The race to understand the risks of the energy transition for wildlife
Researchers are trying to understand how utility-scale solar affects New Mexico pronghorn.
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Federal grazing lands fail their checkup
Fifty-seven million acres of BLM land fall short of health standards.
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Killing one owl to save another
Is it ever the right thing to do? Two ethicists weigh in.
Posted inMay 2024: A River Returns
Tribes lead on wildlife passages
How a new pot of federal funding could help reconnect Native lands.
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As national monuments multiply, Bears Ears forges forward
Tribal co-management takes shape on the ground.
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What’s next for the Owyhee Canyonlands?
Supporters call it ’the largest conservation opportunity in the West.’
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The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act is still a bipartisan unicorn
As a competing bill emerges, supporters defend RAWA as the ’gold standard.’
Posted inApril 2024: Epic Journeys
For these mammals, migration is a means of survival
Will Westerners repair a fractured landscape for mule deer, pronghorn, and elk?
Posted inApril 2024: Epic Journeys
Managing predators from the sky
How to harness drones for conservation.