Sportsmen's Conservation Project

Conservation groups looking to protect the heart of the Roan Plateau from possibly adverse impacts from energy development will have to wait for another day and another judge.

Field & Stream magazine and Trout Unlimited have named the six Best Wild Places on public lands, including an area that includes parts of Utah. 

Senior Editor Colin Kearns and photographer Kevin Cooley spent three days exploring what’s at stake in the battle for water in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir and the consequences of irresponsible drilling for oil and gas in Wyoming’s Little Mountain region. Here’s what they found on day three.

Colorado's Roan Plateau, Alpine Triangle and Outlaw Triangle, encompassing the state's northwest corner and parts of Utah and Wyoming, are among the six best wild places in the American West, according to a list by Field & Stream magazine.

Two of Colorado’s more-isolated backcountry areas have been named among western America’s “Best Wild Places” by Field & Stream magazine and Trout Unlimited.

Greater sage-grouse habitat and other natural resource values at-risk; conservation groups and residents ask BLM to delay leases until the agency completes new management plan.

A coalition and hunting and fishing groups Thursday protested a May 13 oil and gas lease sale on 14 parcels of U.S. Bureau of Land Management land totaling 11,400 acres in North Park.

The San Juan County Board of Commissioners, concerned that establishment of a vast national conservation area on Bureau of Land Management holdings in San Juan County would close the door to future mining operations, voted last week to oppose the proposal.

Meet Mr. Bonneville. Bonneville cutthroat trout are one of three native cutthroats found in the Wyoming Range, which Trout Unlimited helped protect in 2009 from the oil and gas drilling plans in this area.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is visiting Montana Saturday to guage how people in the region feel about a proposed new law to manage the state's forest land.