A mild winter and warm spring across much of the West have contributed to extremely below-average snowpacks and widespread drought conditions, prompting experts to use terms such as “historic” and “abysmal” when describing the current outlook. According to Climate Matters, the western U.S. snowpack was 65% below the 1991-2020 average…

Ever since President Donald Trump signed an executive order in September authorizing the Defense Department to go by the “secondary title” of War Department, the Pentagon has been working to change its signage, signature blocks, and as many instances of “Defense” as possible. But that stops with the Defense Criminal Investigative…

Utah legislators are using the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to go after the management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Earlier this month, Senator Mike Lee and Utah’s congressional delegation introduced a joint resolution of approval seeking to overturn the 1.9 million-acre monument’s Resource Management Plan, which was instituted in…

You can’t overlook Wisconsin’s No. 1 ranking when scrolling through the Boone and Crockett Club’s 17,465 record-book entries for white-tailed deer in the Lower 48.According to B&C’s “Big Game Records Live” online listings, hunters have entered 2,132 Wisconsin bucks (typicals and nontypicals combined) in “the book” since its origins in…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: The famous geographic dictum space plus culture equals place is nowhere more vivid than on the high plains of the West, where a succession of human cultures have repeatedly inhabited a setting already changed by previous inhabitants. I’m dan Flor’s and this is the American West, thinking…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the news show everyone. This week we’re covering how Randall does not understand sports after all. We’re gonna talk about yet another Forest Service management controversy. We’re gonna get into what tracking collars can tell us about bobcats, some things about lost arrow etiquette, more…

General Atomics’ has paused all flight tests and opened an investigation after one of its drone wingmen crashed Monday after takeoff, the company said in a news release. One of General Atomics’ YFQ-42A “Dark Merlin” Collaborative Combat Aircraft “experienced a mishap” at its company-owned airport in California around 1 p.m. local…

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