A company announced it found the country’s highest-grade rare earth deposit in Montana.
Items by Kylie Mohr
This threatened tree feeds and shelters the high country.
It may depend on how you see the world.
A new study explores how packs change when activities like hunting and car accidents kill wolves.
Now they’re rallying to ensure public access to the recreation hotspot.
The tree is getting federal protection. But plenty of people were already trying to save it.
Southern Oregon residents lash back at wildfire preparedness rules.
What the state court’s decision signals for other similar cases.
Researchers are trying to understand what drives snow algal blooms and how they could alter water supplies.
Experts suggest needed upgrades in the face of modern crises.
A new venture near Salmon signals an uptick in hardrock mining across the West.
Practitioners fear a chilling effect on future operations.
A new study finds wildfires are burning more high elevation areas and dramatically impacting the West’s snowpack as a result.
A poor berry crop is driving black bears into Missoula. A hot summer might be to blame.
The bipartisan legislation includes $1.4 billion in annual conservation funding, but climate change isn’t explicitly addressed.
Wyoming is one of five states piloting a resource for agricultural producers.
Equitable wildfire preparedness requires community-level fixes.
The owner of a wood treatment plant is trying to walk away from its mess in West Eugene, Oregon. Neighbors say, not so fast.
Leah Sottile investigates how an Idaho couple’s embrace of fringe Mormon beliefs led to multiple murder charges in her debut book, ‘When the Moon Turns to Blood.’
Four new podcasts envision change in juvenile justice, energy and ranching.
Rocky Mountain teens sue over fossil fuel-friendly policies.
The hunters escaped criminal trespass charges, but still face a civil suit.
A new analysis suggests that over half of communities in the West lack the capacity to take advantage of infrastructure bill funding. Now what?
Western states dominate lists of where short-term particulate and ozone pollution are the worst.
Tracy Stone-Manning discusses how the federal agency sees conservation, the climate crisis and the Indigenous history of public lands.
A Utah library holds a comprehensive archive commemorating ski sports.
A museum in Boise seeks to deepen the state’s understanding of its past.
Jo the deer offered researchers a look into migrations and how long it takes deer to visit a forest after a fire.
54 million acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management aren’t meeting the agency’s own land-health standards.
New legislation to extend a controversial practice is ruffling feathers in Wyoming.
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