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The agency says the new rule puts conservation on equal footing with other uses of public lands, like ranching and mining.
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Earth Day is fast approaching and no Coloradan can forget it. There are a staggering number of opportunities across Northern Colorado to get involved with and learn more about the local environment. Choose your own eco-adventure—or a few—from our handpicked list!
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There are dozens of conservation groups across the Mountain West working to protect the waters, lands and wildlife that make up the region. That includes a nonprofit in Nevada that is helping preserve an important tree species that’s increasingly threatened by climate change.
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In the first three years, the Biden administration has protected millions of acres and spent billions on conservation.
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As Oregon’s wolf population has grown over the last two decades, from 14 to at least 178, so have their encounters with livestock.
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An USDA facility in Fort Collins is at the forefront of cryogenically preserving endangered species so researchers can be prepared for the worst in the future.
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The state will have to decide how to protect the wetlands that now fall outside the purview of the Clean Water Act, which water policy experts are calling “gap waters.”
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More than 100 Democrats in Congress want to restore federal protections for wetlands and streams. Lawmakers are responding to a Supreme Court ruling from earlier this year that gutted protections for many small waterways.
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The Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in Colorado is one year old now. KUNC’s Nikole Robinson Carroll reports on the significance.
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This month, award-winning director Ken Burns will release a documentary showing how bison were nearly driven to extinction before an unlikely group of people preserved the species. His two-part series is called "The American Buffalo."