As 2024 draws to a close, we look back at five maps we created this year that give us hope for 2025.
Category: Grazing
The new Grand Canyon national monument allows traditional uses like hunting and ranching to continue.
You have the opportunity to comment on how you think some of the most beautiful landscapes in Utah should be managed for the next generation to come.
Pronghorn and barbed wire fences don’t mix, but volunteers are working to change that, one wire at a time.
Four fascinating facts about pinyon jays that will have you ready to birdwatch in the name of conservation.
Some good old-fashioned weed removal helps scientists understand what healthy forests look like.
Having trouble with the name of that wildflower? Check out these resources!
What are signs of cattle grazing on our public lands? Volunteers find out in a three-day training.
If the map you’re looking for doesn’t exist, collect the data and make it yourself.
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.
I came knowing close to nothing and walked away feeling that the work I contribute will help keep our public lands beautiful and strong.
North of the Grand Canyon, barbed wire fences stop North America’s fastest land animal in its tracks. We’re changing that.
Don’t let names fool you. From the prairie spiderwort to the hairy false golden aster, lands recovering from grazing are host to some head-turning blooms.
You may have seen “Don’t bust the crust!” signs in national parks in the Southwest. Physical disturbances like these are as deadly to biocrusts as the clear-cutter’s saw is to an old-growth forest.
Help protect archaeological resources at Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
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.
For years, retiring grazing permits has served as a common-sense, market-based solution for protecting some of the west’s most delicate public lands. A rancher’s near death experience serves as an example of how and why these retirements work.
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.