Sportsmen

The Humboldt County Commission took action by a 5-0 vote Oct. 18 to adopt all 12 recommendations of the Pine Forest Wilderness Study Area (WSA) Working Group. That action comes on the heels of more than a year of effort by the working group to refine and redefine the boundaries of the study area before recommending that Congress officially make the area Wilderness.

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A Colorado group is evoking Theodore Roosevelt's wilderness legacy to organize a sportsmen's political movement focused as much on conservation as on traditional gun rights.

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.