The measure was funded by at least $1.5 million from the conservative Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Alliance

The USDA wants more cattle and lighter enforcement on drought-stressed national forests. A family cabin and the Valles Caldera show what unenforced grazing limits cost.

The agency has deferred protections for a crucial habitat connection while considering a 5,133-acre solar project in its path.

Amendment 83 would add the right to hunt and fish to the Colorado Constitution, but it would also limit Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s ability to regulate hunting.

Idaho legislators heard about a federal proposal to expand state control over grizzly bear management where populations have recovered, affecting states near the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The rul...

An Orwellian rewrite of the Endangered Species Act makes foreseeable killing legally invisible, as long as industry claims it wasn’t the point.

Hunters fill a four-wolf limit in just four days, closing down two hunt areas for the season and sparing a wandering wolf pack.

Mike Lee is using the Congressional Review Act to target Tribal co-management and lock Bears Ears into weaker protections for years to come.

WASHINGTON - In his executive order to review the Mexican gray wolf’s endangerment status, President Donald Trump is bypassing federally required wolf population data that has not yet been met. Conser...

An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.

With wolf hunting starting Tuesday in Wyoming, wildlife managers caution that the pack has and potentially will continue to cross jurisdictional boundaries.

BLM sells 940 acres of federal land to the City of Las Vegas for $94M, paving the way for up to 6,000 homes to address the Southern Nevada housing shortage.

For Immediate Release, September 15, 2026 Contact: Theresa Barbour, Oregon Wild Horse Organization, tjbarbour.owho@gmail.com Gayle Hunt, Central Oregon Wild Horse Coalition,, gdhunt4@gmail.com Adam Br...

Even on public land, which belongs to all of us and where the animals live, taxpayers pay to kill animals to protect private interests

Federal employees and affected organizations are suing to stop the Trump administration from reorganizing and downsizing the U.S. Department of Agriculture, including the U.S. Forest Service.

For Immediate Release: September 10, 2026 Contact: Delaney Rudy, Western Watersheds Project, 970-648-4241, delaney@westernwatersheds.org Samantha Miller, Center for Biological Diversity, 970-531-6720,...

The federal government is proposing to overhaul its rules governing livestock grazing on millions of acres of federal public lands across the West, including Oregon and Washington.

Paul Fielder, a Montana State Representative, and a promoter of the killing of wolves, has likened wolves to wasps. If wolf pups die directly or indirectly due to Fielder’s actions, he is not troubled...

A federal judge has allowed American Prairie’s bison to stay for now, but the larger fight over native wildlife, public lands, and the livestock lobby’s power is far from over.

For immediate release: September 4, 2026 Media contacts: Greta Anderson, Western Watersheds Project (520)623-1878, greta@westernwatersheds.org Regan Downey, Wolf Conservation Center (914)763-2373, reg...

The temporary restraining order marked a major victory for American Prairie, which has spent more than 20 years restoring buffalo in Montana.

Conservation Groups Challenge Trump’s Decimation of Two National Monuments in Utah Supplemental complaints to reactivate 2017 monuments litigation in DC District Court CONTACTS Perry Wheeler, Earthjus...

Environmental nonprofit seeks reversal of decision to permit grazing pending dispute.

Adrian Treves, a professor of environmental studies at UW-Madison and co-author of the latest study, said his hope is the study helps guide lawmakers when the next debate over wolf populations arises.

A plan being considered by the Trump administration to allow a developer to use a portion of Yosemite National Park land is facing strong opposition from elected officials and conservationists, reflec...

The proposal leans into hunting to reduce the population to 5,000, but it doesn’t require steps to end feeding, which wildlife disease experts predict is best for the elk population.

Listen now | The American West is rapidly taking being colonized by cheatgrass. What if the solution was as straightforward as removing the ecological stressor?

Karen Budd-Falen needs to stop operating under the cover of darkness

By Eric Washburn I love to hunt. Every year I try to hunt big game in Colorado and waterfowl in Louisiana. This year, I applied for five Colorado big game licenses — elk, deer, pronghorn, moose and bi...

The industries driving the West’s fire crisis are selling logging and livestock grazing as the cure, and taxpayers, wildlife and the land are paying the price.

The U.S. government is slashing two revered national monuments in Utah. What happens next could determine how vast public lands in the western U.S. are managed – or exploited.

The president’s border wall plan could damage or destroy ‘the oldest-known books in North America’

The decision over whether to let the cattlemen turn their livestock onto Northwestern Wyoming allotments full of grizzly bears will soon be made by a U.S. District Court judge.

Recovery on ungrazed meadow in the Sequoia Nation Forest shows remarkable resilience to aid golden trout streams

Bill Nelson has killed another endangered Mexican gray wolf. Once again, authorities treated it as an accident and declined to prosecute.

The lawsuit seeks public records related to scandal-plagued Interior Department official Karen Budd-Falen

Dairy farmers grazing cows in Point Reyes were paid to leave, but now they want back in. They claim the park needs grazing to keep a lid on invasive species. The Trump administration is sympathetic.

New study finds snow droughts could be more than four times as frequent than before the industrial revolution.

Profligate waste and perverse tax incentives are drying up the West’s largest natural body of water. Utah’s beloved Great Salt Lake is a hotspot of biodiversity and supports a $1.9 billion diversified...

Ten Senate Democrats are accusing the Interior Department of using a routine-sounding policy review to lay the groundwork for stripping wilderness protections from nearly 200 million acres of public l...

An Indigenous-led proposal would protect wolves that cross the invisible boundaries of Yellowstone and Grand Teton, and honor their ecological, cultural, and economic importance.