Bozeman
Gallatin Valley Land Trust (GVLT) has partnered with local landowners to complete a 138-acre conservation easement along the western slope of the Bridger Mountains 12 miles north of Belgrade.
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Louisiana
The calls of whooping cranes from an isolated corner of the New Orleans west bank cut through the humid August air like fire alarms, echoing back and forth in cacophonous, punctuated bursts of conversation.
States Newsroom
This summer, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is once again asking residents to look out for one of Maine’s most elusive native species: the rusty patched bumble bee. It’s one of two native species of bumble bee that hasn’t been seen in the state in years. It’s considered a rare species of […]
Montana
Missoula, Mont. — As wildfire season presses on across the western United States, forest experts say that they have several tools available to counter them ahead opf time.
Missoula
Opinion: The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has taken the Park Service to court to require it to use the best available science and stop the pointless slaughter of our national mammal.
States Newsroom
The state of South Dakota did not submit official comments on a major change to the federal Endangered Species Act that will roll back protections for forests, wetlands, deserts and other habitats where endangered species live. The new rule will open some landscapes to development, logging, mining, and oil and gas drilling, due to a […]
Georgia
A federal rule change set to go into effect this fall could cause big changes to Georgia’s landscape, and environmental groups are sounding the alarm. “It’s probably the worst action that’s ever been taken in the history of the Endangered Species Act,” said Will Harlan, southeast director of the Center for Biological Diversity in Asheville, […]
Missoula
Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old-growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that a federal appeals court just ruled for the Alliance.
Louisiana
Conservationists credit the Endangered Species Act for the red-cockaded woodpecker’s limited rebound, but they fear a Trump administration proposal could erase that progress as well as other efforts to protect threatened animals.
Nevada
On the eastern edge of the Las Vegas Valley sit hundreds of acres of watery wetlands. A secret garden of sorts, the Clark County Wetlands Park seems like stepping into another world. The air slightly cools as it drifts through tall meadow grasses and gurgling streams. Decades-old Cottonwood and Mesquite trees dot the landscape, offering […]
