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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."
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The land and its waterways have long been sacred to Indigenous people, and they know how to care for it well. Now, some conservation groups are recruiting Indigenous youth to restore and protect these areas.
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A new report from several groups advocates for federal officials to take into consideration the interests of hunters and anglers when proposing national monument designations. Doing so, the groups argue, will help build more robust coalitions for what they say is a critical conservation tool in a context of political polarization.