conservation

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking the public to help track river otters through a new iNaturalist project marking 50 years since their reintroduction.

The Forest Service plans to limit dispersed camping at Navajo Lake in the Lizard Head Wilderness, reducing sites from more than 50 to nine to protect water quality, wildlife habitat, and wilderness conditions.

A congressional resolution could roll back 2025 management rules for Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, sparking debate over land use and conservation.

A new AI-powered map reveals the most detailed picture yet of groundwater across the United States, showing how much water lies underground and where it may help guide conservation and planning.

Critics of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument may employ a rarely used law to dramatically change how the monument is managed.

State funding supports weed control efforts to protect farms, habitat and water.

About 15 wolverines may be released into the San Juan Mountains as soon as the end of 2027.

Federal auditors say that Congress could use an obscure law called the Congressional Review Act to throw out the Utah monument's resource management plan, which sets which activities are or aren't allowed on the 1.9 million acres.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd addressed a variety of topics during his visit with the Montezuma County commissioners Monday afternoon but was vague about one that is of major interest to many locals – the proposed Dolores River National Conservation Area.

Preparations are beginning in Colorado to reintroduce another predator to the wild, and some prominent critics of wolves are behind the effort to bring back the wolverine.