Geographical Location: Northwest

The Bureau of Land Management will allow increased oil and gas drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The BLM released a final Environmental Impact Statement for the reserve...

Jiake Zhou and three of his colleagues traveled 16 days on inflatable rubber boats in the northern Alaskan wilderness without seeing any other human, with nothing but a few guns...

Tests have confirmed the presence of the fungus that causes the deadly white-nose syndrome in bats for the first time in Montana. The presence Pseudogymnoascus destructans, or Pd, was confirmed...

A federal judge halted a proposed land exchange last week in Alaska that would allow for the construction of a 12-mile gravel road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. The...

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Science Program Supervisor Alan Wood received the Montana Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Distinguished Service Award for 2020 in recognition for more than three decades...

The Department of the Interior announced last week that it would amend regulations regarding hunting and trapping in Alaska’s national preserves by allowing some harvest methods that were prohibited by...

By listening to sounds collected from recording devices in the forest, researchers can detect northern spotted owls and invasive barred owls, which can help with monitoring and conservation efforts for...

The Wildlife Society is criticizing a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to seek public comment on a study from one of its journals on oil exploration and...

Tired of having to stay put to avoid infection? It’s not just you. The North Dakota Game and Fish Department had planned to remove a bighorn sheep herd that was...

State and federal public land agencies are wrestling with how to respond to the new coronavirus after initial federal efforts intended to offer “an antidote to cabin fever” were met...