The US Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the northern population of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, in Colorado, KS, OK and TX. We applaud this decision. It also listed a different population in NM and TX as endangered. (tw)

So pleased the 53,804-acre Camp Hale-Continental Divide was designated as a national monument today. In addition to honoring the legacy of 10th Mountain Division, it safeguards wildlife habitat in the upper Eagle River watershed, and will expand fishing, hunting, other recreation (tw)