In 2018, I went on a canoe trip down the Whanganui River in New Zealand. I went on the trip because, in 2017, the government of New Zealand had granted “personhood” status to the river, giving it legal rights in court to speak for itself. The government’s action was the result of a 140-year legal battle by […]
Nevada’s top Colorado River negotiator said lower-basin states are still pressing for adjustments and attempting to forge consensus-based alternatives before federally mandated water cuts are finalized. Last month, the Bureau of Reclamation released its long-awaited 10-year plan to manage worsening water shortages along the Colorado River, including deep cuts to Nevada’s allocation of the drought-stricken […]
BOSSIER CITY, La. -- A new restaurant and the return of a historic carousel could mark the beginning of a revival for the Louisiana Boardwalk in Bossier City.
GREAT FALLS, Mont. – The Great Falls Police department announced the Missouri River was closed between the Broadwater Bay boat ramp to Black Eagle Dam due to dangerous river conditions.
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.
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.
When Stan Zuray began noticing white spots, a mushy texture and a weird “sour watermelon” smell in the Chinook salmon he was pulling from the Yukon River, he knew something was going wrong. That was back in the 1980s. By about 1990, he and others just stopped fishing what he calls “the ass end of […]
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks says additional hoot-owl fishing restrictions will take effect July 22 on several rivers statewide as rising water temperatures and low flows increase stress on fish.
