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Many Indigenous peoples in North America have long standing traditions of cultural burning, the deliberate ignition of fires for a wide array of purposes. With the robust participation of tribal members, a new paper tries to quantify the scale of past burning by the Karuk people of Northern California.
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The Bureau of Land Management recently held a series of public meetings about its new proposed sage grouse management plan. As the bird’s population continues to dwindle across the West, the agency is trying to add protections, all in an attempt to prevent the bird from being listed as an Endangered Species.
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Raptors are struggling around the globe. We look at the severity of the problem and what an Idaho scientist is doing to help.
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Right now, high mountain snow is melting fast. You can see it starting to overflow rivers all over Idaho, including the Boise and Snake River. And that water is filling streams and reservoirs that are part of the Colorado River system, a lifeline for tens of millions of people in the west. But some of that snow is disappearing before it melts.
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How do you measure the water in the snowpack? Turns out there's a special tool for that.
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Environmentalists are suing Utah to force water cutbacks to farmers to save the Great Salt Lake. Farmers call the blame unfair and say that would have its own environmental and economic consequences.
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States continue their fight over who gets water from the Colorado River.
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New research shows cattle grazing can coexist with one of the most iconic and threatened birds in the West.
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More than 100 years ago, a professor in the Mountain West invented a tool and technique to measure the amount of water in a snowpack — a discovery that still lives on to this day.
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While debate continues over whether or not to remove the four lower Snake River dams to help fish, like endangered salmon, in other places, dams are already coming down for a variety of reasons.
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Climate change has many effects on our world, from extreme heat to drought to floods, which in turn affect people, businesses and governments. But climate change also has a profound effect on our kids, especially when it comes to their mental health.
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Cities, counties and even states have been working harder on land conservation, but as an individual, it can be hard to know where to start when it comes to tackling this problem.