A program that pays rice farmers to create wetland habitats is a rare conservation win.
Wildlife
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Where have all the swifties gone?
This September, a beloved annual bird migration left Portlanders hanging.
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The Forest Service is cutting its seasonal workforce and public lands will suffer
Temporary employees warn that important work will go undone all over the country.
Posted inOctober 2024: Latino Vote
Dancing goats, fallen arches, runaway reptiles and a ‘Renaissance Faire Bear’
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Audio: What do we really learn from trail cams?
Documenting wildlife can bring us back to nature.
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A mixed report for Colorado’s wolves
Nine months after reintroduction, 13 wolves now reside in the state – with more to be released in 2025.
Posted inNovember 2024: The Once and Future Prairie
After half a century, the Apache trout swims off the threatened species list
Arizona’s state fish is doing well but faces a daunting future.
Posted inSeptember 2024: When Migrants Go Missing
What Denali’s road closure means for its wildlife
A landslide sealed off much of the national park’s iconic road — to the delight of bears.
Posted inSeptember 2024: When Migrants Go Missing
Get to know the western bumblebee
Bombus occidentalis may soon be the West’s new face for insect conservation.
Posted inSeptember 2024: When Migrants Go Missing
What a 9,000-mile butterfly migration taught me about queer survival
‘Painted ladies’ go through extraordinary journeys, kindred to that of many LTBTQ+ people.
Posted inSeptember 2024: When Migrants Go Missing
Kinkajous, coprolites and geothermal jamborees
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Utah wants your public land — for more roads
The state wants to build a highway through tortoise habitat.
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Wolverines may return to Colorado
But can they survive in the warming southern Rockies?
Posted inAugust 2024: In the Wake of the Floods
Indigenous celebration of Hanford remembers the site before nuclear contamination
At the fourth annual Hanford Journey, Yakama Nation youth, elders and scientists share stories about a land that is a part of them.
Posted inAugust 2024: In the Wake of the Floods
How do you protect wildlife from sprawl?
A fast-growing Utah exurb gets serious about migration corridors.
Posted inAugust 2024: In the Wake of the Floods
Fur-class travel, wonderful whippets, delinquent donkeys and a white buffalo
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Project 2025’s extreme vision for the West
The demolition of public lands, water and wildlife protections are part of conservatives’ plan for a second Trump term.
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When grasshoppers attack
Is the cure for grasshopper outbreaks worse than the disease?
Posted inJuly 2024
The California artists illuminating kelp
How art and science can build hope for a threatened underwater species.
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Deer 255 reaches the end of her journey
The ungulate migrated farther than any deer known to science.