There are certain sounds that haunt the southern highlands. Wind sighing in the high spruce-fir. The ongoing, ever-changing, yet-eternally-the-same murmurs of a creek. And then there are the forlorn ...

Alex Nees headed a crew that hunted the cottonwood canopy along the Colorado River through Grand Junction late this summer, searching out whether the banks of the Colorado River might host the kind of ...

In my last column, I wrote about the impending eruption of Brood X 17-year cicadas. They’re in full cacophonous swing now. If you live in an emergence area, you know. Depending on one’s outlook, the ...

The elusive bird is usually found near riverbeds and streams, but a new study says it was recently discovered living in arid Arizona mountains. The threatened yellow-billed cuckoo in the West has been ...

DENVER (CN) — The Friends of Animals claims in federal court that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to designate critical habitat for the Western distinct ...

Little Swamp Sanctuary may have a depth of water ranging from two to eight feet in the spring, but shrink to areas of dark muck soil along the edges and a lower water table in the dry parts of the ...

Albuquerque, N.M. • U.S. wildlife managers proposed Thursday to set aside a vast area across seven Western states as habitat critical to the survival of a rare songbird that migrates each year from ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 298,845 acres in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Texas and Utah as critical habitat for the western yellow-billed ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A beloved cuckoo bird won't go federally unprotected in Arizona. Experts are celebrating the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's recent decision to keep the western yellow-billed cuckoo ...

A 15-mile stretch of the Rio Grande in New Mexico was excluded from habitat protections for the western yellow-billed cuckoo to the chagrin of environmentalists. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

TUCSON, Ariz.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated 298,845 acres in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Texas and Utah as critical habitat for the western yellow-billed ...

PHOENIX — A federal judge denied eight environmental groups' request for a preliminary injunction to halt two exploratory mining projects in Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains. The U.S. Forest Service ...