conservation

This weekend we celebrate taking care of out planet. Unfortunately, Wyoming has some serious work to do compared to the rest of the country.

The property is home to crucial moose habitat as well as sage grouse habitat.

The UW initiative aims to conserve migrations by doing research, while also developing new tools and methodologies that allow land managers to identify important corridors.

The eastern part of the ranch is located within the Daniel Core Sage Grouse Area.

Conservationists say it's a thinly veiled attempt to allow more grazing and drilling, similar to Trump's efforts to roll back national monument designations.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said in June his department would consider changing the plan to give states more flexibility.

The conservation agreement includes 549 acres at the site of the former Mineral Hill Mine, which closed in 2001.

A document outlining the recommended changes was released Monday.

The ranch borders another ranch that the Stock Growers Land Trust had conserved earlier.

Almost 2,000 acres of productive ranchland in Crook County will remain in agriculture thanks to a conservation easement on the Wood Ranch.