High Country News

Protecting wildlife corridors remains more theory than practice

There's a growing understanding of the scientific importance of wildlife migration corridors, but protecting them is a huge political challenge.

by Mary Ellen Hannibal, Dec 29, 2011
The Latest Bounce

Whistleblower Earle Dixon’s complaint denied; Colorado moose has chronic wasting disease; Colorado wind power gets cheaper than traditional electricity; court nixes BuRec’s 10-year Klamath River plan

by Matt Jenkins, Oct 31, 2005
Will the BLM Web site shutdown ever end?

The BLM’s failure to plug security holes in its computers, especially those dealing with Indian trust fund accounts, means that most of the agency’s Web sites have been closed to the public for the past six months

by Emma Brown, Oct 31, 2005
The Latest Bounce

Assistant Interior Secretary Rebecca Watson resigns; Texas oil baron Oscar Wyatt indicted in Iraq oil-for-food scandal; Congress won’t fund "bunker buster" nukes; Fish and Wildlife OK with lynx mortality at proposed Wolf Creek ski village

by Matt Jenkins, Nov 14, 2005
BLM experiments with camouflage to hide renewable power structures

The Bureau of Land Management is working with landscape architects and camouflage experts to better disguise renewable energy infrastructure on public lands.

by Kimberly Hirai, Nov 03, 2011
Betting on the house

In Las Vegas, the Bureau of Land Management offers up cheap land for affordable housing.

by Christine Hoekenga, Nov 26, 2007
A fee-dodging retiree forces a national forest to rethink access charges

A retired geophysicist named Jim Smith successfully challenges Arizona's Coconino National Forest on access fees.

by Daniel Kraker, Jul 05, 2011
BLM plans for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska

A controversial proposal for the nation’s biggest chunk of public land aims to allow energy development -- and protect wildlife.

by Jodi Peterson, Dec 24, 2012
BLM teams with researchers to protect midget faded rattlesnake

Biologists and federal officials hope to direct booming oil, gas and wind development away from the rare reptile in southwest Wyoming and northwest Colorado

by Marian Lyman Kirst, May 22, 2013
Who’ll clean up when the party’s over?

There are efforts to reclaim oil and gas drilling sites, but many fear it’s too little, too late.

by April Reese , Nov 10, 2008