Hillary Hoffmann, professor of law at the University of Wyoming and former co-director of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal ...

Utah Rep. Casey Snider spent years quietly carrying out a plan to guarantee hunter access to pristine roadless country — by blocking the Ute Indian Tribe from buying it back.

Dangerous landslide-triggered tsunamis linked to receding glaciers — which are shrinking globally due to climate change — are ...

Among the many dramatic peaks of the West, few mountains stand out like Mount Shasta in the northernmost reaches of California. Shasta erupts from the landscape, a solo peak with no other mountains ...

The federal government is rewriting its rules governing ranching on public lands to increase the number of cattle, sheep and ...

After 20-year controversy and numerous court battles, the Trump administration declared grizzlies recovered despite public ...

The largest tidal restoration project in the Sacramento Delta’s history awaits the return of the threatened Delta smelt.

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Returning a rare orchid to the wild is a complex challenge, but if these scientists succeed, they’ll blaze a path for future reintroductions.

It was established so biologists could collect data from bears in captivity to better understand and manage grizzlies in the wild.

But while Andrews and thousands of Angelinos were racing to evacuate, other people saw a financial opportunity. Using Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market platform, they made bets on the ...

Lisa Balsiger-Vargas, 54, still lives in her childhood home, a white bungalow in White Salmon, Washington, a town of 2,500 people about an hour east of Portland, Oregon. Her large front yard has a ...