Proposed land-use restrictions across 2.1 million acres in Colorado and Utah include 1-mile buffers around all grouse breeding grounds. The Bureau of Land Management is proposing a major new plan to ...

Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert blasted the Biden-Harris administration for its plans to protect an “ugly” animal in her home state. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that it planned ...

A male Gunnison sage-gouse puts on a display on BLM land near Gunnison. Photo by Noppadol Paothong / Courtesy Colorado Parks & Wildlife The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...

The Gunnison sage-grouse seems to be getting a clawhold on Pinyon Mesa, according to recent tallies of the bird's population in Colorado and Utah. The largest population of the birds, that in the ...

The Bureau of Land Management has released proposed measures to help protect the Gunnison sage-grouse, a bird found only in southwest Colorado counties including Mesa County and in southeastern Utah.

The Bureau of Land Management also reduced the amount of land in western Colorado available for new oil and gas leasing. The Bureau of Land Management has completed a suite of long-awaited land use ...

DENVER – The federal government this week declared more than 400,000 acres in southwestern Colorado and eastern Utah off-limits to energy exploration or any other kind of development to protect the ...

Federal officials granted protection to the Gunnison sage grouse Wednesday, a move that could bring restrictions on oil and gas drilling and other land uses to preserve the bird's habitat in parts of ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A federal agency says rebuilding a sage-grouse population found only in Colorado and Utah could take more than 50 years and cost nearly $561 million. The Daily Sentinel ...

As state highway crews work out repair plans for a critical bridge spanning Colorado’s largest reservoir, Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera took a step Wednesday that should expedite an eventual reopening of ...

Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert of Colorado is slamming President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, accusing them of "attempting to lock up our public lands" to protect an "ugly" ...

Since 1995, sage-grouse (Centrocercus spp.) conservation planning in the western United States has largely been based upon local working groups (LWGs) comprised of federal, state, and local ...