Climate Change
A BLM Proposal to Protect Wildlife Corridors Could Restore the West’s ‘Veins and Arteries’
Last winter’s deaths of thousands of Wyoming pronghorn increased interest in “conservation leases.” But where wildlife advocates see hope, energy and ranching interests fear an attack on the “Western way of life.”
PINEDALE, Wyoming—Driving through an ocean of sagebrush on the Pinedale Anticline in June, Wyoming Game and Fish wildlife biologist supervisor Brandon Scurlock was struck by the sparseness of the population on the landscape.
A BLM Proposal to Protect Wildlife Corridors Could Restore the West’s ‘Veins and Arteries’