Predator recovery promises payments for livestock losses, but claims sit unpaid for months while ranchers absorb costs....
Federal cuts leave irrigators with 35% allocations while suckerfish populations remain in decline....
Record bear numbers fuel rancher demands for state control while environmentalists promise more lawsuits....
Federal transfer could be dress rehearsal for delisting — and the hunting debate nobody wants to have yet....
As bear numbers reach recovery goals, the fight over who manages them is just beginning....
Attacks double as rural communities demand hunting seasons while conservation groups blame human sprawl....
Hunting restrictions slash wildlife budgets while alternative funding remains theoretical....
BLM reduces livestock permits 30% for sage-grouse, ranchers say it will destroy their operations....
Montana considers expanding pen-raised bird planting while wild habitat conservation takes a back seat....
Federal order slashing irrigation rights 40 percent to save endangered fish ignites century-old conflict over who owns western water....