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How does conservation happen when the landowner lives elsewhere?
In Texas, authorities are dealing with a rash of timber thieves sneaking onto far-flung parcels of absentee-owned lands
In Texas, authorities are dealing with a rash of timber thieves sneaking onto far-flung parcels of absentee-owned lands
Imagine you’re out for a pleasant winter stroll and just about to bite into your turkey
As he does every single morning from November into April, Bondurant, Wyoming, rancher Kevin Campbell leads his two draft horses, Ed and Smoke, out of their pen and harnesses them to the hay wagon to feed elk.
~1887 – British physician David Bruce investigated a mysterious illness that killed four soldiers on the Mediterranean island of Malta
Over the last 15 years, drilling has intensified in formerly remote wildlife habitats across the West.
It was going to be a routine mule deer study. The Bureau of Land Management contracted Hall Sawyer
Imagine the old green fertilizer spreader you haul out every spring to urge your tired lawn back to greenness, but much bigger and suspended from the bottom of a helicopter.
On the eastern Wyoming plains, the wind whips hard across tough little bunch grasses
“Can you show me some ant mounds on Google Earth?”
Sagebrush scraped the doors of the beat up red truck as it bumped down the faint two-track.
Rancher Truman Julian says he has “a place in his heart” for greater sage grouse.
This fall, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide whether the greater sage grouse merits endangered species protection, and Wyoming is holding its breath.
Kurt Smith plucks the fifth secondary feather from the five-week-old sage grouse’s wing
Dr. Jeffrey Beck and his colleagues and students have quantified canopy cover, measured native and invasive plants, counted insects including ants
In 2007, biologist Arthur Middleton was studying the Clark’s Fork elk herd
Cutthroat trout once linked aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in Yellowstone National Park. As their numbers decline, the link is weakening.
Golden and red-hued leaves and crisp evenings mark the coming of fall in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
The cow and yearling moose that inhabited my densely populated west Jackson neighborhood all winter finally
“They’re really beneficial, to get the shrubs in, get the water up.”
The Upper Green River Basin of Wyoming, at the headwaters of the Colorado River, is laced with clear running streams and fosters abundant habitat and some of the most robust greater sage grouse, mule deer, and pronghorn populations in the world.