The real reason ICE agents wear masks
Under the Trump administration, agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE, have been wearing masks while…
ICE vehicle, courtesy Colorado Rapid Reaponse network
MoreBison need better treatment from Montana
In 1886, the last wild buffalo on the Great Plains was killed among the steep bluffs and badlands of central…
Bison, photo by Taylor Wright, courtesy of Unsplashjpg
MoreColorado River faces a day of reckoning
We are two and a half decades into the Southwest’s most severe drought of the last 1,200 years, and this…
Glen Canyon Dam, Photo by Luca Bravo, courtesy Unsplash
MoreThe Bureau of Land Management is running amok
Imagine the worst landlord you ever had. Then, make it worse. The landlord sells off the wood floor in your…
Clear-cut of Cascadia Forest, courtesy of KS Wild: George Sexton
MoreGuilty plea changes Wyoming’s wolf torment case
A case of appalling animal cruelty in Wyoming is close to being closed with a plea of guilty, setting a…
Gray Wolf, courtesy Ted Williams
MoreA Colorado town waits for a water crisis
Right now, Durango has 10 to 30 days of water stored in its Terminal Reservoir, which holds 267 acre-feet. That’s annual water consumption for about 600 households; Durango has over 9,000 households
Lake Nighthorse, near Durango, Colorado on May 26, 2023. Thanks to lighthawk.org for the aerial support. ©Mitch Tobin Usage rights are granted for editorial and nonprofit purposes only. No commercial or re-sale rights are granted without permission of the photographer. https://waterdesk.org/multimedia/license/
MoreWhen mountain lion management turns to quackery
This year, in what it calls a “study,” Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources is killing off mountain lions in an effort…
MoreA Utah monument comes under attack—again
Utah Republican Congresswoman Celeste Maloy is irritated. Her most recent attack on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument spurred wide and deep…
MoreLawmakers need to protect public access for corner crossers
Last summer, hunters and anglers stepped up in a huge way to help defeat a proposal by Utah Senator Mike…
A landscape of the Birhorn Mountains in Wyoming.
MoreOn their own, wolves walk into Washington state
In 2008, Canadian wolves didn’t wait for an invitation from biologists to move them into Washington state. Instead, they trotted…
MoreMust water be enhanced and encased in plastic?
If someone told me 10 years ago that people would willingly pay over $5 for a one-gallon container of water,…
MoreSoutheast county in Utah has a radioactive target on its back
In the early 1980s, southeast Utah was targeted as a potential dump site for high-level nuclear waste, the kind that…
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