Federal predator reintroduction compensates ranchers for dead livestock, but disputes over payment rates and hidden costs are testing rural communities' willingness to coexist with wolves and grizzlie...
Mountain lion populations have tripled across the West, and the debate over who manages the risk -- wildlife agencies or rural property owners -- is intensifying....
New federal rule bans lead bullets on 245 million acres, setting up clash between raptor conservation and hunting economics....
With wild horse populations tripling past sustainable levels, federal land managers face an impossible choice between protected mustangs and permitted ranchers on the same deteriorating range....
As wolf numbers climb across the West, compensation programs satisfy neither ranchers losing livestock nor conservationists questioning the claims....
Federal agencies prioritize endangered fish over farm water rights, forcing Western agricultural communities to choose between century-old operations and species survival....
A simple reporting requirement has Texas hunters asking whether population data leads to conservation—or confiscation of hunting rights....
When tourists create habituated bears, rural communities face both dangerous wildlife and the regulatory crackdown that follows....
Federal protections for declining skunk species bar predator control and land management on Missouri ranches—without compensation or local input....
Grizzly population has recovered beyond targets, but federal government and environmental groups resist returning management control to Western states....