Geographical Location: Central Mountain & Plains

October 12, 2017

Climate change may be depriving bumblebees of food

Bumblebees gather pollen twice as fast as honeybees, but new research from Colorado suggests that climate change may be straining the wildflowers available to bumblebees and threatening their populations’ survival....

October 10, 2017

Wolf hunting restarts in Wyoming

Gray wolf (Canis lupus) hunting has resumed in Wyoming, pursuant to state management and conservation efforts. The species was removed from the federal endangered species list on April 25, 2017....

September 8, 2017

Legal developments in the ESA status of the grizzly bear

The status of grizzly bear populations under the Endangered Species Act is facing mounting legal arguments in the courts since August. There are five populations of grizzly bears in the...

September 5, 2017

Zion National Park requests comments on bighorn sheep

Zion National Park and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources have opened a public review and comment period for the environmental assessment (EA) on the proposed relocation of desert bighorn sheep...

August 21, 2017

Fishlake National Forest and Boulder Mountain Habitat Improvement Projects

The Beaver, Fillmore, Fremont River, and Richfield Ranger Districts of the Fishlake National Forest worked together to design a landscape scale project to remove encroaching pinyon and juniper trees in...

August 18, 2017

Greater prairie chicken nests unaffected by wind energy development

As the wide-open landscapes that greater prairie chickens (Tympanuchus cupido) occupy are increasingly eyed by energy companies for oil and gas, solar and wind facilities, biologists are taking a look...

August 14, 2017

Wyoming Chapter comments to improve sage-grouse regulations

New policies and regulations regarding greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) management were proposed in the state of Wyoming earlier this year in response to new legislation, specifically relating to the practice...

August 9, 2017

Review team submits sage-grouse management recommendations

The U.S. Department of the Interior released a report, developed by the Sage-Grouse Review Team, which provides an assessment of the 2015 federal Greater Sage-Grouse plans and makes recommendations for...

July 11, 2017

Drought reclaims habitat for North Dakota pelicans

Drought has been stressing crops and worrying farmers across the country, but it could be a blessing in disguise for pelicans in North Dakota, where it’s preserving breeding areas vulnerable...

June 19, 2017

Bison return to Wind River Reservation

As of November 2, the Eastern Shoshone Tribe had restored six of the seven ungulates found in the area of Wind River Reservation in Wyoming before the arrival of Lewis...