endangered species

The plan to build a new highway through a conservation area near St. George has taken a step back. The Bureau of Land Management is revisiting its formal analysis of the road’s environmental impact after a lawsuit from conservation groups.

The federal government is spending more than $200 million to reopen spawning grounds for fish, which includes an effort to recover an endangered species sacred to the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in Nevada.

In addition to ecosystem recovery, the Provo River diversion project adds a whole host of new recreation options to Utah Lake

Conservationists say groundwater pumping in the drought-stricken West is a threat to the Fish Lake Valley tui chub near the California-Nevada line and the least chub in southwest Utah.

The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz has begun. It documents migratory monarch butterfly sightings, and now that the butterfly is endangered, it’s more important than ever.

Climate change and outdated dams are shrinking fish populations across the Mountain West and beyond. That includes a species that a Nevada Native American tribe used to rely on.

The latest Utah news for Wednesday morning, April 27, 2022

The latest Utah news for Friday evening, March 25, 2022.

A filmmaker has documented the debate over a controversial highway through protected Mojave Desert tortoise habitat.

The latest Utah news from Friday evening, Oct. 1, 2021.

Tom Kuka has been ranching on the Blackfeet Reservation for nearly 30 years. His ranch is about 20 miles east of the Rocky Mountain Front, where jagged...

The latest Utah news from Monday evening, December 28, 2020.