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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Sign up for Dispatches to get their stories in your inbox every week. Chris Casad ...

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 ...

We expected a big impact, but the numbers still surprised us: While heat waves, which we defined as three or more consecutive days with temperatures in the top tenth of hottest days, accounted for ...