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New Mexico State Police have suspended a search for a 60-year-old man after he did not return home from a camping trip in the Santa Fe National Forest.

Hunters in the last decade have exported about 1.7 million trophy animals, at least 200,000 of which were endangered species, according to a new report from the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

The U.S. Forest Service is raising deep concerns over a proposed copper mine next to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeast Minnesota.

Eight dolphins in Baltimore that have grown up in captivity will be retired from the National Aquarium and sent to a seaside sanctuary to live out the rest of their lives.

JACKSON, Wyo. -- Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead (R) yesterday announced a plan to raise $46 million to prevent a scenic, square-mile patch of sage-steppe habitat within Grand Teton National Park from being developed for trophy homes.

A federal judge in New Mexico has blocked the government from releasing endangered Mexican wolves without first securing permits from state regulators.

Valero Energy Corp. wants U.S. EPA to tweak its renewable fuel standard.

Common Cause announced the appointment yesterday of Karen Hobert Flynn as president of the progressive watchdog organization.

JACKSON, Wyo. -- Language in the House and Senate Interior Department spending bills to remove Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in Wyoming and the Great Lakes would set a bad precedent for the 1973 law, Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe said yesterday.

JACKSON, Wyo. -- Interior Secretary Sally Jewell this summer will visit the Bears Ears region of southeast Utah, a site of spiritual and historical significance to American Indians that the Obama administration is considering protecting as a 1.9-million-acre national monument.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee leaders are questioning the Department of the Interior over its problematic appeals process for Freedom of Information Act requests.

President Obama will sign legislation to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act that is now heading to his desk.

Manufacturers, unions and trade groups bemoaned a recent string of rejections and delays of pipeline and export projects today, warning a Senate panel that growing demand for energy is butting up against growing anti-fossil pushback and rigorous state and federal permitting.

Senate and House lawmakers are set to battle it out over the sage grouse in a conference committee after senators advanced a defense authorization bill today that is free of environmental riders.

Senate appropriators gave swift approval this morning for legislation to fund the Interior Department and U.S. EPA during fiscal 2017.

JACKSON, Wyo. -- The Endangered Species Act should be amended to provide clearer goals for recovering imperiled species and make states "full partners" in listing, critical habitat and recovery decisions, according to a policy resolution unveiled yesterday by the Western Governors' Association.

A federal appeals court has set the briefing schedule in litigation challenging the Obama administration's contentious Clean Water Rule for this fall, promising that the lawsuit will drag into the next president's term.

National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis faced bipartisan criticism this morning at a hearing on his handling of cases of sexual harassment and other malfeasance within the agency.

Scarce funding threatens the National Park Service's ability to fulfill its basic mandate, raising difficult questions. To what extent should private donations supplant congressional funding? And what's to stop parks from becoming overly commercialized and beholden to their sponsors?

One of the two capybaras that have been running around Toronto since they escaped from the High Park Zoo three weeks ago has been captured.

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