Matthew Brown, Associated Press

Wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to save spotted owls by using trained shooters in dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls in coming decades.

A government analysis to be released Friday shows exceptions will be made for cutting old trees to make forests less susceptible to wildfires.

The Biden administration is moving to let conservationists lease government land for restoration, part of an effort to make conservation an “equal” to other uses of public lands such as drilling and livestock grazing.

Federal prosecutors say Travis John Branson and others engaged in a “killing spree” on Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation and elsewhere.

The proposal Tuesday comes as climate change amplifies the threats that forests face from wildfires, insects and disease.

Only about 300 wolverines remain in the contiguous U.S. in fragmented, isolated groups at high elevations in the northern Rocky Mountains, scientists say.

Coal and mangled rail cars spilled onto the highway, and the bridge collapsed as a California truck driver was going underneath.

Yolanda Fraser is using her own family’s tragedy to highlight missing and murdered Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

The 16 plaintiffs, ranging in age from 5 to 22, said the state is violating their constitutional right to a healthful environment by permitting fossil fuel development without considering its effect on the climate.

Halting the use of the red slurry material could have resulted in greater environmental damage from wildfires, said U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen.

Zooey Zephyr refused to apologize for telling them last week that they would “see the blood on your hands” over votes to ban gender-affirming medical care for children.

The Biden administration plans to craft a new rule to better protect the nation’s woodlands from fires, insects and other side effects of climate change, officials said.

Wednesday’s auction could further test the loyalty of environmentalists and young Biden voters frustrated by the approval of the huge Willow drilling project in Alaska.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took a first step Friday toward ending federal protections for grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, which would open the door to hunting in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.

Moving species to save them — once considered taboo — is quickly gaining traction as climate change upends habitats.