3+ hour, 19+ min ago  (379+ words) (CN) " A federal judge on Thursday blocked the federal government from rounding up free-roaming horses in a national forest spanning Arizona and New Mexico while a lawsuit challenging the removals proceeds. U. S. District Judge Krissa Lanham granted a'preliminary injunction'to the International…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (806+ words) Payson, Ariz. (CN) " More than 100 northern leopard frogs splashed into new waters Tuesday, making their home along an ephemeral stream in northern Arizona recently renovated to establish a permanent wetland. Arizona Game and Fish hopes the new wetland on Dye…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (606+ words) (North Dakota Monitor) Conservation leaders on Tuesday accused the Trump administration and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum of undermining Theodore Roosevelt's legacy of preserving American land. Aaron Weiss, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities, said Roosevelt became president during…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (123+ words) Montana Conservation Voters" endorsement of Seth Bodnar for U. S. Senate should raise serious questions about whose interests the organization actually serves. One of his top donors includes Michael Novogratz of Galaxy Digital, a firm actively building AI data centers. When we…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago  (939+ words) (Stateline) A new lawsuit challenging a logging project in Oregon threatens to unravel the management plans governing hundreds of millions of acres of federal public land. At stake are thousands of leases and permits covering billions of dollars of economic…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (468+ words) (Missoula Current) Grizzly bear advocates are suing a second national forest in Montana for claiming grizzly bears need only an acre of forest to be safe. The Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest started off on the right foot, according to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (544+ words) (Oregon Capital Chronicle) Last week, petitioners hoping to ban fishing and hunting in Oregon reached a milestone in their attempt to change state law. Initiative Petition 28, led by Portland-based animal rights activists, aims to expand animal cruelty laws and criminalize…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (230+ words) For example, the state of Idaho makes payments to the Foundation for Wildlife Management, infamous for offering cash payments and prizes to wolf killers in Idaho and Montana; FWPreceives donations connected to major trophy-hunting and trapping interests, including the Rocky…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (568+ words) (Missoula Current)Montana's cutthroat trout are on the decline, but fisheries biologists are developing plans to preserve the species, especially those that still migrate through the streams of western Montana. "For westslope cutthroat west of the Divide, there is risk…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (424+ words) (Daily Montanan) A tract of land near Yellowstone National Park which had been identified as a potential gold mining site in 2023 has been added to the roster of public lands after The Conservation Fund, the United States Forest Service and…...