JASON BALDES leans against his dad’s red Toyota 4-Runner, two long braids draped over a T-shirt that reads “Make Buffalo Great Again.” Richard Baldes sits in the driver’s seat, silver hair poking out from under his Buffalo Bills hat. It’s a tribute to the... See more
Less than two years after Idaho lawmakers passed a bill loosening regulations on captive elk breeding and high-fence hunting operations, the state had to kill 82 wild mule deer that had wandered into one of those facilities. Under other circumstances, off... See more
The Department of the Interior finalized its overhaul of the nation’s bedrock environmental law on Monday, which loosens oversight on logging, mining, oil and gas development, and other industrial projects. The changes strip the National Environmental Pol... See more
Every winter, thousands of mule deer eke out a living in southwest Wyoming’s Red Desert, a vast, rolling, sagebrush-covered landscape. Come spring, some of the deer in the Sublette herd will stay put, just as their mothers, grandmothers and generations be... See more
Temperatures at the start dropped to minus 2 with wind gusts of 50 mph. Even Interstate 80 carried cautions to any driver brave enough to venture along its winding lanes. Just enough snow covered the ground to whip against our legs in a fury of white. In ... See more
