conservation

The Trump administration wants to do away with the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Established in 2001, it stopped road construction and logging on national forest lands — including four million acres in Utah.

The rule adopted last year allowed public property to be leased for restoration in the same way that oil companies lease land for drilling.

Flagstaff, Arizona, became the first ever DarkSky Community in 2001. Central Idaho is home to the only DarkSky Reserve in the U.S. and Utah has the highest concentration of places globally. More towns in Colorado want to join the ranks.

Anyone over 18 now has to buy a hunting or fishing license to hike, bike or even bird watch at 25 Wildlife or Waterfowl Management Areas in Northern Utah.

It’ll be a simple, white plate with a Great Salt Lake logo on the left. A full, edge-to-edge plate design could come once the state approves new branding standards.

The Utah Conservation Corps has roots in the 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps, and it, too, is about giving people an opportunity.

Between dams, diversions and a changing climate, the Colorado River doesn’t flow like it used to. Now, scientists and conservationists in Utah are working to give cottonwood trees a better chance.

As the wildfire approached Blubber Creek near Bryce Canyon National Park, nearly 100 native Bonneville cutthroat trout were caught with nets and hauled out of harm’s way.

Working with rattlesnakes isn’t a career choice that would entice many, but for Camp Williams wildlife biologist Chris Frauenhofer, it’s a personal passion and he makes a living doing it.

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.