The wolverine can roam hundreds of miles, make short work of steep mountain faces and endure harsh winters on mountain ranges -- but it's no match for climate change.
So say biologists who see a dire threat in vanishing spring snowpacks that wolverines use as dens for their young.
Black Hills National Forest officials will rely on streamlined regulations and extensive commercial tree thinning in a new attack plan against the mountain pine beetle aimed at protecting vulnerable areas before the bugs hit.
Forest Supervisor Craig Bobzien said the Mountain Pine Beetle...
The farm bill's fate continues to be murky as the holidays rapidly approach, Senate and House agriculture leaders signaled yesterday.
While the White House and some members of Congress are open to including the farm bill in a "fiscal cliff" deal, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has...
Mountain lions in the southern reaches of the Bitterroot Valley will soon be donating their DNA for the cause of science.
That information will be combined with additional DNA samples collected from scat and mountain lions harvested by hunters this winter to determine the number of lions...
The Bureau of Land Management has completed its environmental analysis of a proposed wind power project in southeast Nevada that if built would become the Silver State's largest wind farm.
BLM's final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Searchlight Wind Energy Project is not...
A meeting of top Interior Department officials two days ago in New Mexico has raised hopes that the White House will declare a national monument to protect a rugged river gorge and sagebrush mesa near the state's border with Colorado.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar heard from dozens of...
National park service leaders are scrambling to find at least an 8 percent cut in spending should Congress fail to reach a decision on the so-called fiscal cliff. Colorado, home to 17 national park service properties that draw 5.8 million visitors a year and support 6,300 jobs, could see cuts...
Although he proposed to his wife on a mountaintop and claims to have hiked more wilderness than any other elected official, Montana's Rep.-elect Steve Daines (R) remains a riddle on some of the Treasure State's most vexing natural resource issues.
For proof, just look at the big picture. There are elk, bison and bighorn sheep grazing in the prairie regions of Eastern Montana where they had previously been exterminated. Large predators like grizzly bears, mountain lions and gray wolves prowl the...
