Mountain lion recovery brings apex predators back to rural backyards—and puts traditional management tools in the crosshairs of ballot initiatives....
Recovering mountain lion populations spark conflict between conservationists celebrating predator restoration and rural families dealing with livestock losses and safety fears....
Federal habitat protections for struggling sage grouse populations are blocking hundreds of millions in energy development across Wyoming and Colorado, igniting a decade-old debate over who controls t...
Federal agencies pay market value for confirmed wolf kills while ranchers say the real costs—stressed herds, disrupted breeding, and round-the-clock patrols—go uncompensated....
Federal restrictions on public land foraging pit conservation goals against generations of rural tradition and family food security....
Game wardens are planting GPS-tracked shed antlers to enforce seasonal closures, but when a 7-year-old picks one up, who's really being protected?...
Federal agencies cite condor recovery science while hunters say the mandate ignores rural realities and sidelines the sportsmen who fund conservation....
Trophy hunting restrictions promise to save charismatic predators but are draining the primary funding source for all wildlife conservation....
When a community voluntarily protected a legendary white deer, it raised uncomfortable questions about whether modern conservation still trusts hunters to make the right call....
Federal officials say grizzly recovery is complete, but ranchers question whether conservation success should mean bearing the costs indefinitely while environmental groups promise another decade of l...