Conservation Beyond Boundaries
How do you protect wildlife from sprawl?
A fast-growing Utah exurb gets serious about migration corridors.
The Conservation Beyond Boundaries project spotlights efforts to protect, restore, and coexist with plant and animal species outside conventional parks and reserves.
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.…
When grasshoppers attack
Is the cure for grasshopper outbreaks worse than the disease?
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.
Wilson’s phalarope to the rescue
A new Endangered Species Act petition could trigger major conservation actions to save the West’s saline lakes.
With support from the BAND Foundation, High Country News is telling the broader story of conservation in the Western U.S. — a story that crosses property lines, unites communities and connects humans with their fellow species.
In search of the continent’s largest shorebird
The elusive long-billed curlew finds refuge in fragmented grasslands.
Pollution knows no borders
A long-awaited agreement will address Canadian mine waste flowing downriver into Montana and Idaho.
The theft of the commons
It’s time to turn away from land ownership and back to land relationship.
Deer 255 reaches the end of her journey
The ungulate migrated farther than any deer known to science.
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.
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.
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.
Federal grazing lands fail their checkup
Fifty-seven million acres of BLM land fall short of health standards.
Killing one owl to save another
Is it ever the right thing to do? Two ethicists weigh in.
Tribes lead on wildlife passages
How a new pot of federal funding could help reconnect Native lands.
As national monuments multiply, Bears Ears forges forward
Tribal co-management takes shape on the ground.
What’s next for the Owyhee Canyonlands?
Supporters call it ’the largest conservation opportunity in the West.’
The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act is still a bipartisan unicorn
As a competing bill emerges, supporters defend RAWA as the ’gold standard.’
For these mammals, migration is a means of survival
Will Westerners repair a fractured landscape for mule deer, pronghorn, and elk?
Managing predators from the sky
How to harness drones for conservation.
Fighting climate change by fighting racism
Hop Hopkins, the new executive director of WildEarth Guardians, explains how the two movements are connected.
Fund conservation as you drive
Colorado’s new wolf-themed specialty license plate joins a regional menagerie of critter-themed plates.
Learning to live with musk oxen
The species were introduced to Alaska’s Seward Peninsula decades ago, without local consent. Now they pose danger to life and property.
Can coexistence with wolves be bought?
When Colorado voted for wolf reintroduction, it also mandated compensation for ranchers. The hard part: figuring out the details.
The Northwestern Shoshone are restoring the Bear River Massacre site
The tribe is reclaiming their gathering place and returning water to the Great Salt Lake.