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The 15-inch rainbow trout slammed the wobble spoon fluttering in the Snake River below C.J. Strike Reservoir and peeled out line from the spinning reel.

This story was first published by Life on the Range. In the spring of 2023, Bureau of Land Management fire crews burned juniper trees – cut in 2021 – to restore the sage-steppe landscape in the huge expanse of Owyhee County in southwest Idaho. The spring burning projects are a key part of the Bruneau […] The post BOSH Project restores sagebrush sea at a grand scale in southwest Idaho appeared first on Idaho Capital Sun.

Today is the deadline for public comment on Montanas Lolo National Forest management plan. Advocates say the input will shape how the land is used for decades, but others say it could go further. This is the first time the Lolo management plan has been revised since the late 1980s, said Montana Wildlife Federation board member and retired U.S. ...

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The Humboldt River and nearby streams and tributaries were teeming with fish and vibrancy. Todays river is a manmade shadow of its former self.

A look at the implications of demand for lithium thanks to plans to increase electric vehicle sales.

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Crews have been ramping up wildfire resilience projects to thin out brush and dead wood in Californias giant sequoia groves, clearing twice as many acres in 2023 compared with 2022. The Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition is trying to avoid a repeat of the disastrous mega-fires of 2020 and 2021 - which killed about 20% of large mature trees in their native Sierra Nevada range. Joanna Nelson, Ph.D. ...

As students approach the end of the 2023-2024 academic year, the Nevada Department of Agriculture is urging families to complete the Free- and Reduced-Meal Eligibility Form to ensure eligible students continue to receive free or reduced-cost meals.

The Bureau of Land Management has proposed expanding the public land available for solar power production in 11 states, including Montana. The BLMs Western Solar Plan builds on a version first released in 2012 and focuses on harnessing the potential in Western and Plains states most amenable to solar production. Nick Fitzmaurice, energy transition engineer for the Montana Environmental Information Center, said the expanded plan reflects the countrys growing demand for solar energy. ...