Tag: Utah

What’s a mule deer’s (Odocoileus hemionus) favorite spring snack? Researchers tackled this question to help homeowners determine which flowers to plant to avoid deer gobbling up their gardens. “Deer come...

Appearing in Utah on Monday, President Donald Trump shrank the size of two of the state’s national monuments by about 2 million acres. Trump decreased Bears Ears National Monument by...

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...

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...

Across the greater sage-grouse’s range, conifers annually invade 60,000 acres of the bird’s sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) habitat. New research from northwestern Utah indicates that removing these trees boosts the success...

Note: The Logan Cave is closed to the public in order to protect the bats. The Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources are conducting an annual survey...

In the Southwest desert, bees carve tunnels in sandstone. Their mandibles scratch the rough surface, while water carried in their bodies softens the cement between grains. The labor eventually wears...

Pikas are a textbook climate tragedy. As temperatures rise, the fluffy, cold-loving mammals retreat higher and higher up mountain slopes, eventually perishing on the too-warm peaks. But that isn’t happening...