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Did reintroducing wolves in Yellowstone somehow save the park’s aspen trees?
December 10, 2025
Claims that wolves have rescued Yellowstone National Park aspen trees through a ‘trophic cascade’ oversimplify a complex story.
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Forest reform called for by local scientist at impromptu restoration meeting
December 03, 2025
Zybach framed the proposal as a chance to avoid the “Tumblebug failure,” where salvage delays left timber unusable and increased long term fuel loads.
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Legislators plan bills to help Piedmont residents in mine fight
December 01, 2025
Opposition to the mine has crystalized quickly in Meade County, where residents have held meetings and created a Facebook page that had 700,000 page views in its first month.
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Inside Wyoming’s fight against cheatgrass, the ‘most existential, sweeping threat’ to western ecosystems
December 01, 2025
An all-hands-on-deck effort, tens of millions in funding and a breakthrough herbicide are slowing but not halting a destructive force steadily enveloping the best sagebrush left on Earth.
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Interactive mapping tool helps tell the story of California’s Tribal resistance
November 26, 2025
To visualize the history of Indigenous activism among the Maidu and Pit River nations, UC Davis scholars mapped areas of the North State’s mountainous terrain that have been successfully reclaimed by Tribes after previously being held by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
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Citizen groups challenge secrecy and pollution concerns in Tucker County data center air permit decision
November 25, 2025
Three citizen groups are appealing the Department of Environmental Protection’s decision to issue an air permit for a power plant in Tucker County.
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That new towering plume over Mat-Su’s landfill? It’s filtered water from decomposing trash
November 21, 2025
The vapor carries no measurable air pollution because of the way the runoff is processed by the machine.
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How a billionaire’s plan to export East Texas groundwater sparked a rural uprising
November 19, 2025
The citizens of six East Texas counties where Trump took around 80 percent of the vote last November are now turning to their state government to protect them from billionaires.
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Groups push back on Montana’s ‘data center boom’ in petition before utility commission
November 18, 2025
The petitioners argue that NorthWestern’s plan to sign electricity service agreements before garnering regulatory approval is “unreasonable, insufficient and contrary to Montana law.”
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What happens when wolves leave Yellowstone
November 16, 2025
The National Park Service has two chief goals: preserving and protecting natural systems, and visitor enjoyment. Wolves figure into both.
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One month since floods inundated southwestern Colorado, worries turn to the next one
November 16, 2025
Vallecito community members said they were frustrated, overwhelmed, still in shock.
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One theory on why Montana has a disproportionate number of veterans
November 11, 2025
State ranks third in the nation for the number of U.S. military veterans per capita.
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Environmental groups sue Hermantown over data center review process
November 05, 2025
In a lawsuit filed this month, the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy joined the grassroots Stop the Hermantown Data Center group to demand further environmental review on a proposed data center.
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Alaska aims to regulate its own hazardous waste
November 05, 2025
Alaska is one of only two U.S. states without an authorized program, the other being Iowa. That means the EPA regulates the generation, storage and disposal of the state’s hazardous waste.
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NY Voters Narrowly Approve Prop 1 to Protect Land and Make Amends in the Adirondacks
November 05, 2025
The ballot measure addresses a violation that occurred years ago at the Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid.
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