Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday signed — and hailed — Utah’s latest natural-gas drilling plan as an environmentally sensitive leap toward energy security.
Flanked by cooperative representatives from Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance at a pipeline...
Federal land managers across the Greater Yellowstone Area signed a joint agreement Tuesday to explore ways of protecting and restoring whitebark pine across the Yellowstone ecosystem.
Calling whitebark pine a critical component of high-elevation ecosystems, members of the Greater...
The Practitioners' Network for Large Landscape Conservation is an alliance of professionals and citizens engaged in leading, managing, researching, advocating, funding, educating or setting policy to advance large landscape conservation initiatives.
Gov. John Hickenlooper's oil-and-gas task force today adopted a plan to create a collaborative relationship between the state and local governments on regulating drilling.
But even before finishing, industry and local government representatives were predicting that the issue would still...
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has announced its intention to approve a major Uinta Basin drilling expansion that seemingly has something for everyone — 3,675 wells to continue the boom, air-quality controls to limit ozone and river canyon protections that environmentalists like.
The Interior Department yesterday said it will expand its use of baits such as water, salt and sexual attraction to corral excess wild horses from public lands, rather than using helicopters or other motorized means.
The move, which drew praise from some animal welfare activists, marks a...
Today, the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment signed the final planning rule for National Forest System land management planning. The final rule is the result of the most collaborative rulemaking effort in Agency history. This effort included hosting over 63...
Amid a tangle of lawsuits over controversial logging projects 10 years ago, federal officials in western Montana tried a new approach to forest management that involved gathering input from a range of interests.
First came the Blackfoot Challenge, a group of local residents, timber...
U.S. Sen. Mark Udall said Sunday he wants the public to help him craft legislation that would create wilderness and national-monument designations for two popular recreation areas in Colorado.
Udall said 32 areas covering almost 236,000 acres in Eagle, Pitkin and Summit counties in the...
