Interior Secretary Ken Salazar outlined an expanded "all of the above" strategy for balancing conservation of public lands with increased domestic energy production.
"We see energy independence within our grasp," Salazar said in a speech to about 180 participants in a symposium at the...
Wind energy company NaturEner USA LLC said it would relocate 25 towers of a 126-tower wind farm under construction in order to avoid disrupting raptor nests.
NaturEner and Montana Audubon made the announcement last week at the $400 million Rim Rock Wind Farm. The towers will be moved away...
The massive Jemez Mountains restoration project, one of the first funded by a new Forest Service program designed to accelerate restoration of national forest lands, faces numerous challenges, stakeholders said yesterday during a public meeting on the plan.
When state and federal officials swooped into Salmon, Idaho, in 1992 to herald a new effort to help restore the Lemhi River's damaged salmon and steelhead habitat, Don Olson feared it was yet another bureaucratic takeover of his valley.
Olson, who runs 500 head of cattle in this isolated...
House panel this Friday will consider three bills designed to reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfires, restore forest health and address an insect epidemic that many fear could fuel future blazes.
Wildfires this year have burned more than 3.3 million acres nationwide -- slightly above...
Almost from the day in 2000 when Congress approved the purchase of an 88,900-acre former ranch in a stunning collapsed volcano of Northern New Mexico, the public has wanted to see more of it. But how to open the Valles Caldera National Preserve to public use without damaging the resources has...
A group of volunteers set off early Sunday into the morning shadows of the North Absaroka Wilderness, where they’ll spend three days and nights working to remove an old fence from an important wildlife migration corridor.
Members of the Wyoming Wilderness Association, joined by the...
Armed with wire cutters and chain saws, a team of volunteers spread across the LU Ranch on Thursday to remove a rusting old fence as part of an ongoing effort to improve livestock operations and wildlife habitat.
Working across an arid sagebrush steppe in the shadows of the Absaroka...
U.S. Forest Service land managers need more latitude and the forest-management industry more certainty if the mountain pine beetle is to be repelled, or at least contained, in Colorado’s high country, witnesses testified Monday before a congressional field hearing.
