Federal lead ammunition ban expands to millions of acres as hunters who funded those refuges question the cost and the motive....
BLM proposes 28% average grazing cuts across three states, pitting rangeland science against ranch survival in communities where both matter....
Federal lands open to hunting—sort of—as agencies offer limited permits to places your excise taxes already bought...
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....