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SALT LAKE CITY – For decades, a public lands tug-of-war has played out over a vast expanse of southern Utah where red rocks reveal petroglyphs and cliff dwellings and distinctive twin buttes bulge...
DATE: April 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
Mesa Verde National Park is known for preserving ancient cultural sites, and now it will also protect the nighttime view of the stars. This year, Mesa Verde was designated the 100th International...
DATE: April 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
BILLINGS, Mont. – Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half-century as climate change warmed the planet, according to a sweeping...
DATE: April 10, 2021 | UPDATED: 4 days 10 hours ago | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
San Juan National Forest officials are addressing concerns about a logging project’s impact to recreation in the Boggy Draw area north of Dolores. The 22,346-acre Salter Vegetation Management...
DATE: April 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
BILLINGS, Mont. – Grizzly bears are slowly expanding the turf where they roam in parts of the northern Rocky Mountains but need continued protections, according to government scientists who...
DATE: April 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
(AP) – Native people have had ties to land in North America since time immemorial, and now that connection is expanding to the cosmos. The Perseverance rover has been on Mars for more than a month,...
DATE: March 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
WASHINGTON – Male songbirds usually learn their tunes from adult mentors. But when aspiring crooners lack proper role models, they hit all the wrong notes – and have less success attracting mates....
DATE: March 31, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
With nearly two-thirds of the United States abnormally dry or worse, the government’s spring forecast offers little hope for relief, especially in the West where a devastating megadrought has taken...
DATE: March 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. wildlife officials are asking a federal judge for more time to rewrite rules that guide management of North America’s rarest subspecies of gray wolf, saying they will miss a...
DATE: March 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
ALBUQUERQUE – Once on the verge of extinction, the rarest subspecies of the gray wolf in North America has seen its population nearly double over the last five years, with more gains being reported...
DATE: March 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
SALT LAKE CITY – As persistent drought and climate change threaten the Colorado River, several states that rely on the water acknowledge they likely won’t get what they were promised a century ago....
DATE: March 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life
With the Southwest drying up, water guzzlers placed throughout the San Juan Mountains for wildlife are becoming ever more important. Through the 1970s and 1980s, the U.S. Forest Service, in...
DATE: March 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life