Today, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe announced $20 million in grants to 24 critical coastal wetland projects in 13 states and territories to conserve and restore coastal wetlands and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Raley Groves near Dundee is one of five properties recommended for potential acquisition through the Polk County Environmental ...

South Dakota’s farms, ranches, rural communities and wildlife advocates are living with uncertainty, and congressional delay ...

John Gilbert’s father spent years trying to convert a flood-prone patch of land on their nearly 800-acre farm in Hardin County, Iowa, to more cropland. “We fought with that land for many years,” said ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in northern Michigan. Tucked about a mile offshore from Lake Michigan, in northern Michigan’s Charlevoix ...

ONE autumn in the late 1990s, Texas' coastal prairie withered under a pernicious drought and David Lobpries prepared for the worst. Hordes of migratory waterfowl -- as many as 2 million geese and ...

There are approximately 23,000 playas in Texas, the highest density in North America, and mostly overlay the Ogallala aquifer (see map below). Even though they cover only 2% of the region’s landscape, ...

WEST MISSISSIPPI — Owners of land along the Mississippi River in Mississippi may be eligible for financial and technical assistance with increasing bottomland forest acreage and enhancing water ...

HAVANA, Ill. (AP) -- The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Agriculture Department have agreed on a plan that will allow 6,000 acres of the Emiquon Preserve to be set aside for 30 years in a wetlands ...