The West Fork Road that slices into the Custer Gallatin National Forest just outside Red Lodge isn't gated until Dec. 1. Unfortunately, there's no gate for common sense.
Three major livestock producing organizations in Colorado announced on Monday they have formed Coloradans Protecting Wildlife. The coalition is in the early staging of the pushback against the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project’s petitioning for the reintroduction of wolves into Colorado, specifically in the San Juan Mountains.
BENSON — In November 1999, Kartchner Caverns State Park officially opened to the public, offering tours through caves beneath the Whetstone Mountains, camping, and education. On November 16, 2019, the public is invited to an all-day event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the park!
If you like to fish for native trout, love rivers and big mountain backdrops, the recent posting by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department on its annual sampling of the Snake River may make you drool.
Exciting angling isn't just found during warmer weather. It's also available for anyone who takes advantage of the state’s trout fisheries during the colder months of the year.
My boat drifted along the edge of a weed-covered mid-river shoal. My boat partner, John Yankovich, casted his Picasso spinnerbait to a pocket of calm water located at the downstream tip of the shoal. His rod soon bent under the load of a heavy fish, one that proved to be a 3.25-pound smallmouth bass. It was one of several quality-sized smallmouth bass brought to the boat during a recent outing.
Whether you’re using a traditional paper permit or the MO Hunting app, after harvesting a deer or turkey, you must notch your permit and Telecheck your game.
A 200- to 250-acre wildfire in the Coronado National Forest prompted evacuation of the Molino Basin Campground Sunday afternoon, officials said.
Is hunting just for me? I have been asked this question numerous times, and without hesitation, I answer, "Absolutely not!"
Black bear and cougar (mountain lion or puma) attacks in Paradise are extremely rare, really, and grizzly attacks are so far nonexistent. Still, for some reason I’m hearing several questions and concerns from homies lately. This may have been triggered by the push of some agencies and groups to return grizzlies to the Cascades, the reports of recent grizzly bear attacks in the northern Rockies, or the ongoing discussions of recent bear and cougar attacks in Canada. Be that as it may, this seems like a good time for a look at predators and our interactions with them (note that for this week’s discussion, I am excluding wolves and grizzlies).
LINVILLE — In a surprise turn of events, the 180-pound Bigfoot statue that used to adorn the exterior of Mountaineer Landscaping, and was missing for almost two months, found its way home on October 16.
HIL0, Hawaii —Hawaii’s largest island has become a “mix of paradise and a freaking hell-scape,” an Army National Guard spokesman says.
WASHINGTON – The National Park Service on Wednesday released a plan to identify gaps in the current National Park System to better inform future decision-makers – including the incoming Trump Administration -- of options that more fully represent the nation’s natural and cultural resources, and the experiences of all Americans.
A new study using a NASA satellite instrument orbiting Earth has found that small, environmental changes in polar food webs significantly influence the boom-and-bust cycles of phytoplankton. These findings will supply important data for ecosystem management, commercial fisheries and our understanding of the interactions between Earth’s climate and key ocean ecosystems, NASA said.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Unprecedented warming air temperature in 2016 over the Arctic contributed to a record-breaking delay in the fall sea ice freeze-up, leading to extensive melting of Greenland ice sheet and land-based snow cover, says a NOAA-sponsored report released Tuesday.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced $900,000 in grants under the Wolf Livestock Demonstration Project Grant Program. Grants will be distributed to the states of Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin.
Scientists at NOAA say the arrival of La Niña’s has caused global temperatures to cool from the record warm conditions experienced earlier in the year.
La Nina has arrived and is favored to stick around through winter, scientists at NOAA say. Forecasters say the climate phenomena likely will contribute to drier and warmer weather in the southern U.S. and wetter, cooler conditions in the Pacific Northwest, and across to the northern tier of the nation this winter.
WASHINGTON -- In the final weeks of the Obama administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is finalizing rules that would further restrict the management of non-federal oil and gas development on lands of the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Obama Administration has said protecting and expanding refuges is part of the president's environmental legacy.
October is typically a month for crisp weather and fall jackets, but for many across the U.S., it felt more like bathing suit season, NOAA scientists say.
Thanks to a La Nina influence, the southern United States will have a drier and warmer winter, while the northern U.S. should face a wetter, cooler winter, forecasters from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center said Thursday.
HARKERS ISLAND, N.C. – Cape Lookout National Seashore re-opened most of its facilities Tuesday after conducting assessments of park resources and facilities following Hurricane Matthew. High surf limited officials from inspecting all parts of the park.
While hunting is a sport often associated with men, Marna Evans and Mary Gates, prove women enjoy the activity, too.
HONOLULU, Hawaii -- Scientists working in the Hawaiian Archipelago are calling some of the deep coral reefs found in the region’s so-called oceanic “twilight zone” the most extensive on record, with several large areas of 100 percent coral cover.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Elephants, rhinos and lions will headline next week's meeting in South Africa to fight trafficking of endangered species.
BILLINGS, Mont. -- ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. has agreed to pay $12 million in damages to resolve claims stemming from the July 2011 oil spill into the Yellowstone River, according to a consent decree filed in federal court Wednesday.
WASHINGTON – Twenty states will receive federal grants totaling $44.8 million to help protect threatened and endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday.
LA JOLLA, Calif. -- How do you find whales that dive so deep and spend so little time at the surface that some species have never been observed alive? Sometimes you just have to listen closely.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Thursday designated the first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean, protecting fragile deep-sea ecosystems off the coast of New England as the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.
PHILADELPHIA – For the fifth time, James Hautman of Chaska, Minn has won the Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. He made it a family affair.
SAN DIEGO -- In a ceremony that signaled to the world the United States is committed to ending the scourge of wildlife trafficking, confiscated rhino horn items with an estimated black market value of $1 million -- including whole horns, ornate objects and items falsely marketed as medicinals -- were reduced to ashes.
Visitation numbers for August decreased slightly in Yellowstone National Park. The overall decrease for August 2016 totaled 1.5 percent below August 2015. However, the first seven months of 2016 are up 4.3 percent compared to the previous year.
Endangered humpback whales in nine of 14 newly identified distinct population segments have recovered enough that they don’t warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act, NOAA Fisheries said Tuesday.
Scientists from the Bishop Museum and NOAA have published a description of a new species of butterflyfish from deep reefs of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The study was published Tueday in the scientific journal ZooKeys.
Applications will be accepted starting Thursday, September 1, for those interested in obtaining a permit for a non-commercially guided snowmobile trip into Yellowstone National Park during the 2016-2017 winter season.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama issued an executive order last week to expand the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating the world’s largest marine protected area. The expanded boundaries cover more area than all U.S. national parks combined. The area is bigger than Texas.
