Ted Williams

A male Gunnison sage grouse shows off during mating season in this April 11, 2007, file photo. (Helen H. Richardson, Denver Post file)

Trump administration legalizes extinction of the Gunnison sage-grouse (抖阴ap)

September 1, 2026 at 12:44 p.m.

We won鈥檛 just lose the Gunnison sage-grouse. Hundreds of other listed organisms will slide into oblivion, and the most successful habitat protection and restoration law ever enacted will cease to...

This March 16, 2017, file photo released by the Bannock County Sheriff's Office shows a cyanide device in Pocatello, Idaho. The device, called M-44, is spring-activated and sprays poison that is meant to kill predators. (Bannock County Sheriff's Office via AP)

Trump administration resurrects dangerous cyanide bombs that explode into animals’ mouths (抖阴ap)

June 12, 2026 at 6:54 a.m.

M-44s, spring-loaded devices scented with decomposed animal tissue, blast cyanide into the mouth of any creature that bites and pulls them. The Trump administration is bringing them back.

Utah begins to cull mountain lions to ‘study’ the effect (抖阴ap)

February 23, 2026 at 5:41 p.m.

Utah鈥檚 mountain lion cull follows hard upon a 2023 state law that opened up year-round, mountain lion killing without requiring permits.

K.C. Macklin of Lakewood pumps ethanol-free gasoline into his 2002 Road Hawk, a trike motorcycle is parked at the pump at Brad's Conoco, 1075 S. Union Blvd., in Lakewood, CO to get some ethanol-free gasoline on Wednesday, October 15, 2014. (Denver Post file)

For waste and inefficiency, you can鈥檛 beat America’s government-forced corn ethanol gas (抖阴ap)

May 20, 2025 at 2:13 p.m.

Corn ethanol, also known as grain alcohol, has been burned in gasoline engines and human stomachs since before Henry Ford was born. It抖阴ap hard on both, so until 35 years...

Yellowstone National Park employees guide a mule-driven sled carrying eight gray wolves to a release site in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., in Jan., 1995. (POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

抖阴ap: Wolves need federal protection to survive

March 26, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

"Wolf recovery in the West 鈥� the biggest success in wildlife management history 鈥� took decades to achieve." 鈥擳ed Williams, Writers on the Range

California Gulls sit on an exposed sand bank at the Great Salt Lake on August 02, 2021 near Magna, Utah. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

抖阴ap: How a controversial poison found in Roundup saved Utah Lake

September 24, 2024 at 5:01 a.m.

So thick was Utah Lake鈥檚 infestation that wildlife couldn鈥檛 move through it, and people couldn鈥檛 access the lake.

抖阴ap: Fur trapping didn’t stop in 1918 — Colorado hunters still pursue valuable bobcat pelts

May 7, 2024 at 7:17 a.m.

Unlike the rest of modern wildlife management, killing bobcats is unregulated, driven not by science but by fur prices. We鈥檙e stuck in the 19th Century when market hunters shot boatloads...

A brown speckled frog with yellow legs sits on snow near a mountain lake in Yosemite National Park.

抖阴ap: Will this frog survive the showdown of natural ecosystems vs. outdoor recreation?

May 3, 2023 at 3:27 p.m.

Shortly after World War II, California fish managers had a brainstorm: They loaded juvenile trout into airplanes and saturation-bombed naturally fishless lakes in the High Sierra Mountains of California. Some...

The Keystone pumping station in Steele City, Neb.

抖阴ap: Let’s clear up some facts about the so-called “Keystone Pipeline鈥�

July 18, 2022 at 11:54 a.m.

What some pipeline advocates think is the 鈥淜eystone Pipeline鈥� is a 1,700-mile 鈥渟hortcut鈥� called Keystone XL, or KXL. It would have sliced through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma...

Interior Ryan Zinke, left, and U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner speak with the media following a press conference at Rocky Mountain National Park on July 22.

Williams: Sportsmen can thank themselves for the attack on public lands

August 25, 2017 at 12:00 p.m.

Without the support of hunters and anglers, Donald Trump wouldn鈥檛 be president and Ryan Zinke wouldn鈥檛 be interior secretary. Now those groups say they are astonished by the administration's policies.

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