The Durango Herald

Want to help wildlife? Don’t!

The kindest response people can show toward fawns, bear cubs and baby birds could be categorized as benign neglect, says a Colorado Parks and...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and...

At last, a solution to protein shortage

ROME – The latest weapon in the U.N.’s fight against hunger, global warming and pollution might be flying by you right...

Wildlife Museum opens for the summer

The Wildlife Museum at the Durango Fish Hatchery is open for the summer from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Birders flock to S.W. Colo. festival

The Ute Mountain/Mesa Verde Birding Festival, held in Cortez to coincide with the annual observation of International Migratory Bird Day, celebrates...

Mesa Verde greening up

The Spanish “mesa verde” translates to “green table.” Turns out the name is apropos, in more ways than one.

Bear-safe tips offered to residents

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are cautioning residents that bear activity in towns and...

SAN FRANCISCO – Federal land managers have postponed all gas and oil lease auctions in California until October, citing budget problems and...

Hoping for chile weather

HATCH, N.M. – In southern New Mexico, the mighty Rio Grande has gone dry – reduced to a sandy wash winding from this chile-farming...

European bees find pesticide relief

BRUSSELS – The European Union plans to restrict the use of three pesticides to better protect dwindling bee populations.