endangered species

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.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife launches a status review for Wilson’s phalarope, citing habitat loss and climate threats tied to the future of Utah’s Great Salt Lake.

This week’s Farm News & Views looks at a House bill to delist gray wolves, farm labor shortages driving food prices, and the history of mistletoe.

Colorado Parks and WIldlife published the most recent collared gray wolf activity map last week.

A bird that is critical to the survival of the piñon-juniper woodlands that characterize much of the Southwest may be in danger of disappearing.

Montezuma County attorney Ian MacLaren has been appointed judge for the Dolores County Court, and wolverines may return to Colorado.

The Bureau of Land Management announces a new draft plan to protect the greater sage grouse on sagebrush range lands in several Western states, the U.S. Senate passes a resolution to overturn the USDA’s rule that would allow Paraguayan fresh beef imports,

More bees are needed to help pollinate almond trees in California, the USDA reports that farm outputs have tripled over the past 70 years while labor and land use have fallen, ranch-trained horses remain valuable assets on larger ranches, and tire manufacturer Goodyear begins using soybean oil in some new tires.

A look at a few projects being proposed as solutions for the low water levels in the lower Colorado River basin, and how the decline in common milkweed threatens the monarch butterfly.

A look at food price increases over the past year, the factors behind increased retail prices for beef, the Food and Drug Administration will now require a veterinary prescription for injected antibiotics for livestock, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature adds the monarch butterfly to its “red list” of threatened species.