Biden’s climate jobs program will put young people to work starting this summer.

Deer 255, a mule deer famous for her yearly 240-mile migration from southwest Wyoming to central Idaho, has died. According ...

Pat would have fired her if he didn’t secretly dream of marrying her on the shore of the Great Salt Lake. He walked down the ...

In-school day cares exist elsewhere in rural Montana, too. Ekalaka, a town of 399 people on the eastern edge of the state, opened its center in August 2022. Browning, located on the Blackfeet ...

On a warm day in August, Anthony Stewart hiked through a forest on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, making his way through a tangle of ferns and grasses. Wispy, lichen-coated branches hung overhead, ...

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Welcome to the Landline, a monthly newsletter from High Country News about land, water, wildlife, climate and conservation in the Western United States. Sign up to get it in your inbox. This April, at ...

The men in the helicopter worked for a company that specializes in capturing wildlife for biological research. Each time they spotted a pronghorn, the pilot flew close enough for a colleague to fire a ...

The Gila Wilderness, however, was the first. In June 1924, 40 years before Congress passed the Wilderness Act, forest managers set aside this area as the nation’s first protected wilderness. That’s ...

As New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness Area — the nation’s first designated wilderness — turns 100, HCN considers how the nature — ...

This article appeared in the June 2024 print edition of the magazine with the headline “Can the future be the past?” ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking $1.9 million to upgrade seven aging water guzzlers on the Desert National Wildlife Refuge to aid desert bighorn sheep conservation. The guzzlers are in ...