Ronan Donovan spoke on Tuesday as part of the Wheeler Opera House’s Changemaker series. He says humans are part of the natural world, and restoring our relationships to animals like wolves will make us happier and healthier.

Nevada wildlife officials have confirmed the presence of the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in bats, marking the first detection in the state — and making Nevada the final western state where the pathogen has now been found.

The new ‘dredge-and-fill’ rules address a gap by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sackett decision two years ago, which drastically shrunk the number of waterways eligible for federal protections.

Reintroduced in 2023, gray wolves have spread out across western Colorado, exploring wild landscapes and preying on elk, deer, and occasionally — livestock. To address the problem, Colorado is piloting a program that sends “range riders” to patrol lands where wolves are preying on livestock.

National monuments across the West do more than preserve iconic landscapes — they also help protect the rivers millions of people rely on for drinking water. But a new analysis warns those protections could weaken under the Trump administration’s push to redraw the boundaries of several monuments.

Lake Tahoe is the spiritual center of the world to the Washoe people, who are Indigenous to the region, but they have limited access to its shores. A grassroots nonprofit hopes to change that.

Momentum is building toward deployment of respirators to protect wildland firefighters from a long list of toxins. But researchers argue that the workforce's practical concerns would need to be addressed for implementation to be successful.

Brian Fennessy has nearly 50 years of fire experience, which began in the late 1970s on elite federal hotshot crews and other wildfire teams.

Keystone Resort in Colorado was the first resort in the country to open in 2025, in part due to their emphasis on early-season snowmaking. As climate change amplifies drought in the Mountain West, ski areas across the region are considering how best to use increasingly scarce water resources.

Eighteen cattle ranchers in the Mountain West region are partnering with a carbon credit company to make their land healthier and get extra revenue.