4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (454+ words) Colorado once more joined a coalition of states challenging the Trump administration — this time on proposed rules regarding the Endangered Species Act. The pair of lawsuits challenge new rules made under Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who earlier said the endangered…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (791+ words) Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commissioner Rebecca Niemiec on Wednesday urged the agency to impose stronger penalties — including the possibility of criminal charges — against the hunter who admitted accidentally killing a wolf in northwest Colorado. The commission reviewed the case involving…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (263+ words) Songs are very helpful when identifying birds. The Lincoln’s sparrow song is a series of short notes that quickly rise and fall in pitch, with a whooshing quality that resembles the noise of rushing water. This sound quality relates to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (466+ words) A pair of wood ducks and their ducklings were the last birds to roost inside Lexie Sierra-Martinez’s heart. She and a gaggle of other bird lovers took in the adorable sighting at Pella Crossing in Boulder County while Sierra-Martinez co-led…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (498+ words) Colorado’s second-highest court clarified on Thursday that a defendant may stand convicted under the state’s trophy hunting laws if he abandons a bear carcass but returns later to remove the meat. Under Colorado law, it is a felony to detach…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1175+ words) PUEBLO — Forty-five years ago, a small, turn-of-the-century hog barn reinvented itself as southern Colorado’s only raptor rehabilitation center. Some of the same faces are still around, nearly a half-century later. Diana Miller, director of the Raptor Center, an extension of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (315+ words) In 2010, El Paso County finalized a master plan for 1,000-plus acres of open space in Black Forest. But a few years later, a wildfire left the ground and pines hazardous ー casting the future of Pineries Open Space in doubt....