Wildlife

How the tiny brine shrimp can help protect the Great Salt Lake
How the tiny brine shrimp can help protect the Great Salt Lake
A conversation with the sixth-grade activists behind Utah’s new state crustacean.
The artist and the harpooner
The artist and the harpooner
In Micah McCarty’s art, the past and future are one, and the whales never left.
Seeking sanctuary on a warming planet
Seeking sanctuary on a warming planet
Scientists look to identify, map and preserve climate change refugia.
Utah ferrets out reintroduction plan
Biologists hope to release 45 black-footed ferrets in northeastern Utah.
Salmon need to swim
Barging fish around hydroelectric dams doesn't work according to a review panel.
For the fish
Wyoming dam operations have been altered at the Flaming Gorge Dam to help native fish recovery.
Armed ecosystem managers build roads through wildlands
An essay on Earth First! activity in the Nez Perce National Forest.
Wolves in Idaho
The Fish and Wildlife Service is slow to confirm wolf sightings, which could affect wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone.
Queen salmon tours Northwest
A theater troupe will perform "biologically explicit' musical comedy.
Forest watchdogs in Montana
The forest-watchdog group, Gold Creek Resources Protection Association, wins its first battle in a timber fight against the Burnt Bridge Timber Sale.
Action in Idaho
Four species of Snake River snails and a limpets are now under Endangered Species Act Protection.
Wyomingites shoot to kill M-44s
An Animal Damage Control plan to use M-44s to poison animals is under fire in Wyoming.
How many bears?
A Colorado Division of Wildlife study will count black bears on Black Mesa.
A tracker's guide
A review of "Tracking and the Art of Seeing: How to Read Animal Track and Sign', by Paul Rezendes.
Wilderness politics are anything but simple
The President of the Montana Wilderness Association's governing council offers an opinion on the Montana Wilderness bill.
Critics say agency is eating its young
Transfers among Forest Service employees from several Idaho national forests are political, employees say.
Montana wolves lose their advocate
Wolf biologist, Mike Jimenez, loses his job in Ninemile Valley, Montana.
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