(Courthouse News) The public comment period on the Trump administration’s move to overhaul the Endangered Species Act ends next week and if new rules are finalized, it could become harder to protect new species and guard those already under threat. The proposed overhaul to the Endangered Species Act, legislation which has seen modest revisions since it was enacted in 1973, … [Read more...] about Comment deadline nears on Trump administration’s overhaul of Endangered Species Act

State game wardens are investigating after a bull elk and a deer were illegally killed west of Whitefish. They need the public's help. Most recently, wardens responded on Wednesday to a report that a white-tailed buck had been shot and killed in a field near the Stillwater River, at the intersection of Twin Bridges and Lodgepole roads. The deer's head had been removed by the … [Read more...] about Montana FWP investigates illegal kills of deer, bull elk near Whitefish

More than a month after it was closed and thousands of visitors were evacuated during a firestorm, the Glacier National Park’s iconic Going-to-the-Sun Road reopened Monday to private vehicle travel between Apgar and Logan Pass. That means the entire length of the road can now be traversed – from West Glacier to St. Mary. In addition, the developed area at Avalanche Creek … [Read more...] about Going-to-the-Sun Road fully reopens as Howe Ridge fire continues to ‘creep and smolder’

ARVADA, Colo. (CN) – By dawn on Saturday, Sept. 15, a dozen cars were parked at the newly opened Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge and at least as many hikers wandered down trails surrounding the site of a former-nuclear weapons factory near Arvada, Colorado. “I like to take pictures of bugs, so I thought maybe I would find some two headed grasshoppers out here,” said a tall man … [Read more...] about Wildlife refuge opens on Colorado superfund site, despite lawsuit