U.S. Fish and Wildlife (USFWS)

Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the bald eagle had a ball bearing in its wing when they found it near Croke Reservoir.

The state wildlife action plan is required every ten years to receive federal funding for conservation efforts.

The Trump administration is telling the state of Colorado it can no longer import wolves from Canada. That's according to a recent letter to Colorado wildlife officials from Brian Nesvik, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service incentive launched last year and is now expanding to more wildlife refuges.

The concern comes after Tina Jackson, who led the species’ recovery across 12 states–including Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona–was fired as part of the Trump Administration’s federal workforce cuts.

Workers at the Rocky Flats plant northwest of Denver helped build nuclear weapons during the Cold War. The plant is gone and the land is now a wildlife refuge. A new documentary looks at the controversial history of Rocky Flats, and the memories of its employees. We talk with the director, on today’s In The NoCo.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and local wolf advocates are now offering rewards for tips that help identify and prosecute the person who shot the wolf.

Here’s a scorecard of the wins and losses for threatened species in the West. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Michael Booth and then read The Colorado Sun story at the link below.

It includes critical habitat designations for the first time in the Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico.

Workers at the Rocky Flats plant northwest of Denver helped build nuclear weapons during the Cold War. The plant is gone now, buried beneath land that’s now a wildlife refuge. A new documentary opening at the Denver Film Festival looks at the controversial history of Rocky Flats, and the memories of its employees. We hear from the director, on today's In The NoCo.