conservation

The Utah Lake Authority is launching a new campaign to get Utahns to visit the state’s largest freshwater lake and change perceptions about the misunderstood body of water.

Digitizing the bee collections at museums could answer important questions like whether certain species are still buzzing in the same places they once were, or if their bodies have changed over time in response to stressors like climate change.

As the new License Plate Design Review Board contemplates design criteria, the Great Salt Lake plate is stalled.

Since 1906, all but three presidents have used the Antiquities Act to protect unique landscapes and cultural resources. Biden has signed off on six monuments and either restored or enlarged boundaries for a handful of others during his term.

Tackling climate change isn’t a top priority for Republicans, but Benji Backer says that can change.

Biden's Interior Department released four proposals for managing the river in an apparent attempt to nudge the states toward agreement.

Grouse numbers plummeted in recent decades because of drilling, disease and other pressures.

The Northern Corridor Highway alternative route chosen by the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would avoid building a new road through prime Mojave Desert tortoise habitat.

A 3-2 vote on Thursday by Wyoming's top five elected officials ends decades of threats to sell the square-mile parcel to the highest-bidding private developer. The land has been a bone of contention between the state and federal officials for decades.

The Wilderness Act, passed in 1964, gave Congress the authority to designate wilderness areas. It led to the establishment of many popular outdoor recreation areas, including the Maroon Bells Snowmass Wilderness, and Flat Tops Wilderness, where the idea first began.

Zone 6 is a popular recreation spot and desert tortoise habitat that was protected as part of the deal to build a highway near St. George. Local leaders and the state now say if the highway doesn’t happen, the land is open for business.

The lawsuit follows a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision in February to reject conservationists’ requests to restore endangered species protections across the region.