Climate change, beetles, and disease imperiling long term survival of high elevation pine tree, key source for grizzly bears and found across the US West. Fish and Wildlife Study published Wed. would protect the whitebark pine tree under Endangered Species Act. The trees can live up to 1,000 ye...
By Mead Gruver The Associated Press
CHEYENNE » The life-or-death journey made by mule deer during the second-longest big game migration in North America came down to their ability to squeeze through a fence — a discovery made by scientists using wildlife GPS tracking techniques...
By Nicholas K. Geranios The Associated Press
SPOKANE, WASH. » The Trump administration announced plans Thursday that ease protections for sage grouse in the West, prompting an outcry by critics who say the move paves the way for widespread mining and drilling and ignores a federal cour...
By Jim Robbins
© The New York Times Co.
Are the wolves of Yellowstone National Park the first line of defense against a terrible disease that preys on herds of wildlife?
That is the question for a research project underway in the park, and preliminary results suggest that the answ...
By Bruce Finley The Denver Post
Gray wolves gained a hardfought path to “paws on the ground” in Colorado with the approval Thursday of a controversial reintroduction measure, the first time a state’s voters have forced their government to re-introduce an imperiled species.
Colorado Parks and ...
DEPARTMENT
OF THE INTERIOR
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Trump administration officials on Thursday ended endangered species protection for gray wolves nationwide, rankling conservationists who contend wolves still are vulnerable — and raising the stakes in Colorado’s citizendri...
Yahoo News October 24, 2020
The population of Galapagos penguins and flightless cormorants, two species endemic to the islands, has seen a record increase, study results released Friday showed.
The Galapagos penguin is one of the smallest species of penguins in the world, measuring up to 35 centim...
Shared from the 10/10/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
Rob Griffith, The Associated Press
Tasmanian devils, the carnivorous marsupials whose feisty, frenzied eating habits won the animals cartoon fame have returned to mainland Australia for the first time in some 3,000 years.
“Seeing those devils re...
Shared from the 10/9/2020 The Denver Post eEditionBy Scott SonnerThe Associated Press
RENO, NEV.» Citing the government’s repeated reversals and refusals to protect a cousin of the greater sage grouse the past two decades, conservationists are suing again to try to force the federal listing of...
Shared from the 10/7/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
By Patrick Whittle and Michael Casey
The Associated Press

PORTLAND, MAINE» Nick Muto has fished up and down the New England coast and there is nothing that gets his blood boiling more than the sight of a seal.
Muto, whose two boats fis...
Shared from the 9/16/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
A decade-long global effort to save Earth’s disappearing species and declining ecosystems has mostly stumbled, with fragile habitats such as coral reefs and tropical forests in more trouble than ever, researchers said in a report Tuesday.
In...
Shared from the 9/11/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
KILLINGS OVER BORDER IN WYOMING Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
With Colorado voters set to decide whether to order a re-introduction of wolves, wildlife officials using cameras and “howl surveys” say they’ve regularly detected multiple wolves ...
Shared from the 9/6/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
ALLEGED INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE, DRUG TRAFFICKERS By Aimee Ortiz
© The New York Times Co.
Shark fin soup, considered a delicacy in some countries, has long fueled demand for illegally harvested fins. But federal authorities in Georgia announced...
Shared from the 9/8/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
By Todd Wilkinson
Writers on the Range

Mark DeOpsomer of Bozeman, Montana, is a backpacker with lots of miles on his soles. For almost four decades he’s gone to the remotest corners of the Northern Rockies.
On a recent trek 24 m...
By Eduardo Duwe, Marcia Reverdosa and Rodrigo Pedroso, CNN Updated 0145 GMT (0945 HKT) August 19, 2020
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN)A Brazilian sanctuary, home to 15% of the world's population of blue macaws, has been consumed by fires -- and there are fears for the well-being of the rare birds.
"It is ...
Shared from the 8/18/2020 The Denver Post eEdition
OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENT IN ALASKA Trump administration finalizes plan to open refuge to drilling By Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain
© The New York Times Co.
WASHINGTON»The Trump administration on Monday finalized its plan to open up part ...
The Associated Press, from The Denver Post eEdition, July 12, 2020
SPOKANE, WASH.»The forested mountains in and around North Cascades National Park in north central Washington state have long been considered prime habitat for threatened grizzly bears, so environmental groups are upset the Trump adm...
By Elizabeth Williamson and Sarah Mervosh, © The New York Times Co., from The Denver Post eEdition, July 16, 2020
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, ARIZ.» Glowing purple and scarlet in fading afternoon light, the geological marvel that is the Grand Canyon, the crown jewel of America’s national park syste...
Shared from the 5/3/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post
Mountain lions face an uncertain future under a new state plan to let hunters kill up to 15% a year across western Colorado, and more near subdivisions — rankling animal rights advocates who favor a live-and-let-...
By SUSANNE RUST, ROSANNA XIA
MARCH 28, 20207:53 AM
As gray whales began their northern migration along the Pacific coast, earlier this month — after a year of unusually heavy die-offs — scientists were poised to watch, ready to collect information that could help them learn what was killing them.
...
