outdoors

For some Utahns looking for their family's Christmas tree, they need look no further than the public lands near their home.

After receiving input from stakeholders earlier this year, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has released a list of priorities guiding its initial draft of a management plan for the controversial practice of feeding wild elk at winter feedgrounds.

Some three million acres of Colorado lands have been protected through land trusts and their partners, and new online resources launched by the group Keep it Colorado aims to help more families keep producing on their farms and ranches, and maintain their land for future generations. 

California is number one in the country for dollars spent on camping, hiking, climbing, and biking, according to the latest federal data.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife has agreed to turn over operations of the North Shore Marina at Lake Pueblo State Park to a Colorado Springs company that will run it on an interim basis while a long-term contract is negotiated.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is investigating eight suspected poaching cases within Game Management Unit 70 in San Miguel County.

Environmental groups are calling efforts over the past half-century to restore the wild turkey population from the brink of extinction one of America's greatest wildlife success stories.

Approximately 63 percent of Utah's public lands is managed by the federal government, according to the latest drafting of the state's resource management plan. But could the oversight for Utah's public lands, along with the revenue they generate, ever be handed over to the state?

A Montana district court this week issued a temporary restraining order in a case challenging new wolf hunting and trapping regulations.

The outdoor recreation economy in Colorado accounted for $11.6 billion last year, according to recently-released federal data.