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On today's newscast: The Aspen Police Department has appointed two interim police chiefs, the director of the Pitkin County jail has resigned, the ski slopes were abuzz with Argentinian soccer fans after the country beat France in yesterday’s World Cup final, Aspen Film’s annual Academy screenings begin today, the largest annual meeting about drought and the Colorado River wrapped up Friday, the Whitebark Pine has been listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, and more.

BILLINGS, Mont. — Whitebark pine trees can live more than 1,000 years, but in just two decades more than a quarter of the trees that are a key food source

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has found significant threats that will challenge the tree found throughout the West, including in Montana.

Miners were digging their way by the shovelful through a rocky mountain, hoping to make their big strike along "The Great Silver Belt," but that big strike never happened. As I hiked in their footsteps, it almost felt like they could be returning any day now. Mining equipment is strewn near the tunnel opening and

CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK – Douglas Emhoff, America’s second gentleman, made his first visit to Crater Lake National Park Thursday and came away impressed. “I woke up in (Washington) D.C., and here I ...

If the answer is saving Americas greatest wildlife region, Catherine Semcer writes, then a more valiant and courageous effort aimed at conserving private lands needs to begin right now

Whispers from the Ghosting Trees A guest post by Gail Zawacki, who blogs at Wit's End.

The BC Environmental Assessment Office inspected the project area again this spring and found multiple instances where sediment-laden project water had found its way into watercourses and wetlands.

Posted: April 29, 2021 Columbia Basin Trust supports four large-scale projects to improve ecological health, native biodiversity Endangered whitebark pine, pathways for pollinators, wetlands and habitats for swallows and bats will all benefit from new environmental restoration initiatives as part of Columbia Basin Trust’s Ecosystem Enhancement Program. Johnny Strilaeff “The environment of the Basin is part of what makes this area so special, and these projects build on the direction from...

Pondering Climate Change In A Red State Already Known For Its Melting Glaciers Even when state leadership is lacking, scientists say in this op-ed, progress can still be made in confronting impacts by focussing on local issues with local expertise by Here, a researcher stands in the terminal, lowest-elevation segment of Sperry Glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana. Sperry is one of five benchmark glaciers being closely studied by the USGS to track the retreat of their size and mass. This ...