public lands

The San Juan National Forest is hiring seasonal workers for recreation, trail maintenance, and resource management. Job postings open Feb. 20 on USAJobs.gov.

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

Officials propose designated campsites to reduce impacts in the Lizard Head Wilderness.

Grand Canyon National Park will reopen part of the North Kaibab Trail on March 4 following last year’s Dragon Bravo Fire, with new flood monitoring and safety measures in place.

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

On the eve of the high-stakes summit, negotiators from both the upper and lower river basins are not sounding confident they can reach an agreement with less than three weeks to go before a Feb. 14 deadline.

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.

The announcement from Parks and Wildlife on Wednesday came three months after the Trump administration blocked Colorado's original plan to capture a second batch of wolves in British Columbia and fly them to the state.