Geographical Location: Central Mountain & Plains

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is opening a new Colorado-based office that will focus on cleaning up mines. EPA associate deputy administrator Doug Benevento said the new Colorado-based Office of...

Yellow-bellied marmots in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains experience higher survival rates during the summer than in the winter as the climate changes. Researchers often use mark-recapture analyses to help them estimate...

The Gunnison sage-grouse has withstood millennia of changes in Western Colorado. But now the species faces extinction as the invasive plant cheatgrass invades its last refuge — the remote Gunnison...

For now, the U.S. Forest Service can continue its grazing plan that includes removing grizzly bears from the Bridger-Teton National Forest in response to conflicts with livestock, a federal court...

Trash cans and bird seed in people’s yards may provide easy food for roving bears, but new research shows those resources can come at cost. Bears that spend time in...

Wolves may be engineering the Yellowstone ecosystem by helping the growth of tall willow trees in Yellowstone National Park. Since their reintroduction in 1995, gray wolves (Canis lupus) have caused...

North Dakota wildlife officials say a group of bats there died of white-nose syndrome, the first known cases in the state. The little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) were found in...

Feel like you’ve been stuck inside for a while? Maybe you can relate to these black bears (Ursus americanus) emerging from hibernation in Colorado. The two cubs were orphaned in...

In Wyoming’s Thunder Basin National Grassland, imperiled mountain plovers choose nesting habitats on the edges of black-tailed prairie dog colonies, researchers found. The grassland plover species is known to nest...

Cougars in the United States have been contracting the same bacteria that causes the disease that killed a number of the people throughout the world in the mid-14th century, the...