Monarch Week News Today

The June 23 Music in Kelley Park concert will include a celebration of Apple Valley Mayor’s Monarch Week.

A U.S. District Court has halted a logging project in the Kootenai National Forest in Montana because of its potential to harm an already imperiled population of grizzly bears. As part of the Knotty Pine timber project, the U.S. ...

Thriving elk herds are adding to the challenges facing mule deer populations, which have been on the decline for decades in Wyoming and across the west, according to emerging research. Kevin Monteith, professor of natural resource science at the University of Wyoming, said when mule deer live closer to elk it comes at a cost to their fat gain over summer. It is important because the amount of fat female deer enter winter with plays a big role in their ability to survive and produce fawns in spr...

Congress votes today on whether the lesser prairie chicken -= a popular southwestern game bird -- should have its status as "endangered" overturned. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., co-sponsored the resolution. ...

This is Monarch Week, and environmental advocates are calling attention to the plight of the monarch butterfly. Monarchs are considered essential pollinators contributing to the cultivation of many fruits and vegetables, but their life span is short with four generations spawned in the course of a year. Those hatching in late summer and early autumn migrate up to 3,000 miles from as far north as eastern Canada to spend winter in central Mexico. ...