Conservation

Fort Collins is abandoning its effort to expand Halligan Reservoir and will sign onto Northern Water’s Glade project. The City Council says the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP)would provide permit certainty and significant cost savings, resulting in smaller rate increases for utilities and water customers. A CSU PhD in Ecology disagrees.

Yellowstone National Park and a Colorado company called Tallgrass have launched a $105 million conservation fund for the park. Announced Monday, officials said it is the largest private gift in the park's history.

Federal wildlife officials downlisted the razorback sucker to threatened status, but its life in Arizona rivers is still difficult.

In her latest book Fierce Country, Heather Hansman tells the stories of three women whose experiences helped shape the region, but whose stories have largely gone untold.

The Colorado constitution includes a provision that told the state legislature to care for the forests. But not many people know it's there. This is episode two of The Colorado Dream: Happy Birthday podcast.

More ranchers in Colorado are using virtual fencing to manage their livestock. The technology allows them to keep their animals within invisible boundaries without having to put up miles of physical fence. A look at how the technology works, and how it may help ranchers better coexist with predators like wolves.

The world’s smallest rabbit is at the center of a new legal fight that conservation groups say could have broad implications for sagebrush ecosystems across the Mountain West.

The annual Mountain Plover Festival happens this weekend in Karval, Colo. The festival celebrates this elusive bird, sometimes called the “prairie ghost.” We hear more about Mountain Plovers — and why it’s so hard to spot one.

50 years after otter reintroduction efforts began in the state, CPW is asking the public to help document the species.

Wildlife officials say when climate conditions impact natural food for bears, they can be drawn into human sources.