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Category: Forest Restoration
The federal government will determine if the charismatic blue bird should be listed as threatened or endangered.
Tree ring data helps scientists and land managers protect old-growth pinyon and juniper trees.
Four fascinating facts about pinyon jays that will have you ready to birdwatch in the name of conservation.
Pack your camera and head for the trees! The Colorado Plateau has some of the best displays of fall foliage all season long.
Grand Canyon Trust volunteers document pinyon jay sightings to help protect the pinyon and juniper forests they rely on.
Aspen trees in a fenced portion of Pando, the world’s largest aspen clone, are reaching for the sky. Learn about the effort.
Everywhere I looked, I saw only European honeybees. Where had the native bees gone?
New management plans for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument allow destructive pinyon and juniper removal projects to “improve” the land for cattle.
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Vincent Tepedino, a retired bee biologist and conservation advocate.
Need help writing a comment to the U.S. Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management? We’re here with tips on what to say and how to say it.
For eight years, the Monroe Mountain Working Group has been helping aspen take root in Fishlake National Forest. Here’s the latest challenge we’re working to overcome.
We’ve been working to restore millions of acres of forest lands. Here’s why.
We can use Blind Canyon as a lesson in recognizing the signs of overgrazing, so that when you come across devastation like this when you’re out hiking, biking, or birdwatching, you can report the damage and do your part to defend the land instead of turning a blind eye.
For the past 6 years, the 47-acre Price Spring Exclosure has offered a rare glimpse of what public lands can look like when cattle aren’t chomping down and trampling fragile vegetation. But now, six years of slow steady growth has been erased.
Beaver have recently re-entered creek systems in Utah, Oregon, and Washington to work their dam magic.
Eager invasives are poised to move in on recovering lands in the White Mesa Cultural and Conservation Area. Can natives win?
Exotic mountain goats are decimating the fragile alpine landscape of the La Sal Mountains and kicking up barren dust wallows in which nothing can grow. And, as the goats continue to multiply, the problem will only get worse.
They are the West’s most savvy water engineers. Here on the Colorado Plateau, ground zero for climate change, we humans have a lot to learn from these furry creatures.
High Country News writer Krista Langlois trekked above 11,000 feet in the La Sal Mountains to understand what is at stake with a fast-expanding herd of exotic mountain goats of concern to both the Forest Service and the Grand Canyon Trust.