The waters around the United States are home to many threatened species who need science-based conservation policies to save them from extinction. They won’t get that for the next four years.

Evidence from the pandemic found that bighorn sheep populations soared when people weren’t around to disturb them.

Park boundaries can’t protect against everything, and the trees that give the reserve its name remain threatened by climate change, fire, and an invasive fungus.

Citizen scientists are helping restore the ecosystem engineers to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

Agriculture drained this ecosystem. Now, under the specter of future drought, the same systems have started to bring back both water and wildlife.

Conservationists agree that Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands are an ecologically important area, but how to protect them isn’t as simple.

Supporting the reintroduction of buffalo on Tribal lands in the United States and Canada requires international, interagency cooperation.

A timber sale looms over hiking trails, a nearby city’s water supply, and already-vulnerable salmon and orca populations.

Conservationists are working to preserve eastern Montana’s intact prairie and return its assemblage of native wildlife.

A 10,000-acre logging project threatens endangered species, recreation and nearby communities.