Proposed land-use restrictions across 2.1 million acres in Colorado and Utah include 1-mile buffers around all grouse breeding grounds. The Bureau of Land Management is proposing a major new plan to ...

A male Gunnison sage-gouse puts on a display on BLM land near Gunnison. Photo by Noppadol Paothong / Courtesy Colorado Parks & Wildlife The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...

The Bureau of Land Management has released proposed measures to help protect the Gunnison sage-grouse, a bird found only in southwest Colorado counties including Mesa County and in southeastern Utah.

The Bureau of Land Management also reduced the amount of land in western Colorado available for new oil and gas leasing. The Bureau of Land Management has completed a suite of long-awaited land use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert blasted the Biden-Harris administration for its plans to protect an “ugly” animal in her ...

DENVER – The federal government this week declared more than 400,000 acres in southwestern Colorado and eastern Utah off-limits to energy exploration or any other kind of development to protect the ...

Dueling claims about the fate of the Gunnison sage-grouse are at the heart of several cases before a federal court, trying to sort out the bird's listing under the Endangered Species Act. The state of ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A federal agency says rebuilding a sage-grouse population found only in Colorado and Utah could take more than 50 years and cost nearly $561 million. The Daily Sentinel ...

As state highway crews work out repair plans for a critical bridge spanning Colorado’s largest reservoir, Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera took a step Wednesday that should expedite an eventual reopening of ...

Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert of Colorado is slamming President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, accusing them of "attempting to lock up our public lands" to protect an "ugly" ...

Environmental groups have launched a pair of court battles over protections for an imperiled bird on public land in the Western U.S. but called a truce in a third lawsuit involving its smaller cousin.

An important question regarding sagebrush ecosystems, and species that rely upon them like sage grouse has to do with exactly what constitutes the fire rotation in sagebrush habitat? And a corrolary ...