Conservation finance helps private landowners get paid for the open space they provide for free
Items by Emilene Ostlind
A far from comprehensive sampling of the region's hands-on natural resource programs
In rural Wyoming, naturalist John Mionczynski plays piano, restores motorcycles, studies wildlife and tracks down evidence for the mysterious creature known as Sasquatch.
Wold Oil Properties is a wildcatter - a small company that explores for oil and gas in areas where the fuels aren't known to exist in valuable quantities.
Along the 120-mile-long "Path of the Pronghorn," migrating animals cross rivers, dodge traffic, battle blizzards and navigate the infrastructure of Wyoming energy development.
Emilene Ostlind and Joe Riis tracked the western Wyoming pronghorn migration for two years. But it wasn't until their final spring that they truly experienced it.
If you really believe in trying to eat a local, sustainable diet, why not learn to hunt for your own food?
Migrating Montana pronghorn contend with harsh weather and blocked pathways
About 2,000 post offices - some of them in small, remote Western towns - will be closed this year.
New rule clears the way for solar and wind projects on public land.
As the Crow Reservation suffers floods, a planned energy project sinks away
Emilene Ostlind talks with Niemeyer about his years tracking, capturing, relocating and removing wolves in the Northern Rockies, and his perspective on wolf management.
The tumbleweed may seem like a Western icon, but actually it's an invasive nuisance that scientists are struggling to control.
Conservationists put natural gas developers in the defensive
EPA clarifies meaning of "water" in the Clean Water Act
One company halts fracking in Marcellus shale, continues in West
Legislation protecting the mountain fails to prevent energy development proposals.
Columbia Energy Partners plans to build four 104-MW wind farms with 40 to 60 turbines each on Steens Mountain. East and West Ridge will be on private land inside the protected area boundaries, Echanis on private land just outside the protected area and Riddle Mountain on state land.
Scientists are working on effective birth control methods for wild animals.
A luthier credits his Western upbringing with shaping the instruments he builds.
Advances in animal contraception could relieve pressure on rangelands
Mule deer on Wyoming's Pinedale Anticline are struggling, and the BLM's adaptive management plan has done nothing to help.
Debate over the benefits of rules to clean the air
Statistics on how much control the "Big Four" have in the U.S. beef marketplace and worldwide.
Researchers hope fungi will control invasive Russian thistle
Federal settlement could fund reservation infrastructure improvements.
Forest Service cancels natural gas leases
The essays in Ellen Waterston's Where the Crooked River Rises pay homage to her home in the high desert of eastern Oregon.
Highway avalanche control gets harder as mountain communities grow and skiers flock to the backcountry.
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