Amid a record-breaking year of Western bear conflict, the historically tolerant Red Lodge community is grappling with opposing views on how to live with the species — and if a 'fed bear' really should...

Reintroducing the buffalo not only benefits Indigenous people, but all Americans, tribal leader Jason Baldes said.

While ranchers support eliminating federal protections for wolves, data shows the predators kill few cattle. Trump’s lifting of tariffs on foreign beef, however, is hitting cattlemen’s wallets.

While ranchers support eliminating federal protections for wolves, data shows the predators kill few cattle. Trump’s lifting of tariffs on foreign beef, however, is hitting cattlemen’s wallets.

The decision allows Colorado’s largest water utility to triple a reservoir’s storage, despite concerns about diverting more water from the dwindling Colorado River.

Climate change will almost certainly feature prominently in any multi-state litigation over the Colorado River. A court case over an almost-finished dam expansion may decide how.

Environmentalists say a “fatal flaw” in an analysis supporting the lease sale calls the agency’s environmental analysis into question, while ranchers lament drastically reduced bonding minimums.

Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.

Nevada is the first state to sue over the Trump administration’s ten-year strategy for how to stabilize use of the Colorado River.

Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.

Climate change will almost certainly feature prominently in any multi-state litigation over the Colorado River. A court case over an almost-finished dam expansion may decide how.

A recent poll showed overwhelming support from Wyomingites for public land. A new PAC is hoping to capitalize.

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A small nonprofit with an innovative approach to predator-livestock conflicts is trying to ease Colorado ranchers’ concerns about wolves.

Solar is exploding in the Central Valley as drought-stressed farmers look to alternatives.

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Upper Colorado River Basin representatives say poor hydrology makes drawdowns from their reservoirs incapable of solving the long-term decline of the river.

Even a huge snowpack during the coming winter would only give the river basin states less than two years of storage before reservoirs returned to historic lows.

Even a huge snowpack during the coming winter would only give the river basin states less than two years of storage before reservoirs returned to historic lows.

Snow and rain in the American West is concentrating at one of the highest rates in the world, researchers found, with implications for ecosystems, water management and this year’s El Niño.

Access to more power producers over a wider range of the West could lower rates, but Wyoming regulators will monitor the market to see if it penalizes the state’s coal, oil and gas over the next five ...

A team including scientists, Indigenous people and conservationists point to the ecosystem connecting Yellowstone and the Yukon as an example of a region where humans and nature are flourishing togeth...

Recently released data show how drought, paltry Western snows and unseasonable heat, all exacerbated by climate change, could be priming the nation for a long wildfire season.

SFGate’s national parks bureau makes waves. Plus: AI slop on slop at Vanity Fair, and holding Grammarly’s CEO accountable.

Go behind the scenes with managing editor Jamie Smith Hopkins, data journalist Peter Aldhous and reporter Jake Bolster as they discuss an exclusive ICN analysis of workforce chaos at the Department of...

The move happened as the agency shed thousands of workers. Critics and ex-employees say the administrative staff driven out were crucial for maintaining operations.

The proposed expansion of Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountains Mine has also revived scrutiny of a controversial land swap bill that would deprive Musselshell County of tax revenue.

The U.S. Forest Service announced revisions to its oil and gas leasing rules on Tuesday that the agency promises “modernizes and streamlines” the permitting process to drill for fossil fuels in the na...

As the Cowboy State faces larger and costlier blazes, scientists warn that the flames could make many of its iconic landscapes unrecognizable within decades.

The EPA’s rejection of Colorado’s regional haze plan and orders from the Trump administration to keep coal plants online in the state have advocates worried about damage to protected areas.

A new study says researchers could be missing important climate and environmental changes associated with reduced livestock grazing.

Willcox is ground zero for Arizona’s groundwater crisis. The state’s settlement with Riverview, the company draining the town’s aquifer, requires it to fallow fields and compensate affected well owner...

Lower electricity bills could help two Cokeville cattlemen compete and pass their businesses on to their kids, they say, but lawmakers won’t let ranch-scale solar projects feed power to the grid.