How problems for Colorado’s cattle industry will ripple through the state’s economy By Judith Kohler April 20, 2026 at 12:08 p.m. Drought has cattle producers facing mounting challenges: rising hay prices, potential limits on grazing.
Why is the Bureau of Land Management pushing Bison off Montana’s public lands? (ap) By Tyson Running Wolf March 25, 2026 at 6:01 a.m. In 1886, the last wild buffalo on the Great Plains was killed among the steep...
A Utah monument comes under attack — again (ap) By Stephen Trimble February 18, 2026 at 5:01 a.m. Utah politicians are betting the public won’t pay as much attention to management retrenchment as...
Western senators cannot support this Trump nominee who wants to liquidate public lands (ap) By Aaron Weiss December 1, 2025 at 11:05 a.m. Trump's BLM nominee Steve Pearce’s vision for our public lands is not conservation or even...
Colorado land board agrees to sell 46,000 acres in San Luis Valley, despite worries about federal policy By Elise Schmelzer November 13, 2025 at 3:33 p.m. "We were all-in until the world went nuts," said Commissioner Christine Scanlan, who expressed concerns...
Colorado public lands deal faces unexpected scrutiny after years of planning — and reason is unclear By Elise Schmelzer November 11, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. "We had pretty much put it in our rearview mirror, because it looked like a...
Trump administration seeks to cut nearly 200 Colorado jobs at federal public land, science agencies By Elise Schmelzer October 21, 2025 at 10:58 a.m. The planned cuts were outlined in a filing made public Monday in an ongoing federal...
This park in Utah is under threat from Trump — do not give up (ap) By Stephen Trimble October 20, 2025 at 1:34 p.m. As retired Capitol Reef superintendent Sue Fritzke said, "OHVs would denigrate the very resources those...
Many of Colorado’s 54,000 federal civilian workers in limbo amid shutdown, but public lands are open By Nick Coltrain October 1, 2025 at 6:08 p.m. Not all federal workers are furloughed, with significant exemptions in some agencies. Excepted employees, or...
Trump rollback of rule for public lands — including 13,000 square miles in Colorado — would reduce conservation role By Elise Schmelzer September 28, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. "We’ll continue to push back against these efforts -- which are deeply unpopular with the...