Scenarios Planning

Scenarios Planning

An oil major considers possible futures to prepare for a changing world

Royal Dutch Shell’s primary business is the discovery, extraction, refinement, transportation, marketing, and selling of oil.

The Clean Power Plan

The Clean Power Plan

When Congress failed to enact legislation to address climate change, President Obama vowed to take action himself. “No challenge poses a greater threat to our children, our planet, and future generations,” he said.

The Landowner Must Yield

The Landowner Must Yield

A 100-year-old homestead act gives energy developers access to private lands

Just south of where the Little Snake River meanders along the Colorado-Wyoming border, silvery green sagebrush and mountain scrub grow above a fortune of hydrocarbons.

Pronghorn antelope. Drawing by Bethann Merkle. Reproduction requires permission of the artist.

The Big Picture

New research explores how critters fare in the oil and gas fields

Over the last 15 years, drilling has intensified in formerly remote wildlife habitats across the West.

Farming Sagebrush

Farming Sagebrush

Can fertilizer grow more deer on public lands?

Imagine the old green fertilizer spreader you haul out every spring to urge your tired lawn back to greenness, but much bigger and suspended from the bottom of a helicopter.

Horned lark nestlings. Photo courtesy Anika Mahoney.

Life Among the Turbines

Researcher explores how grassland birds respond to wind farms

On the eastern Wyoming plains, the wind whips hard across tough little bunch grasses

Wyoming Conservation Exchange

Wyoming Conservation Exchange

New Marketplace Will Reward Wyoming Ranchers for Conserving Sage Grouse Habitat

Wyoming Conservation Exchange

The Upper Green River Basin of Wyoming, at the headwaters of the Colorado River, is laced with clear running streams and fosters abundant habitat and some of the most robust greater sage grouse, mule deer, and pronghorn populations in the world.

Sagebrush Recovers at Oil and Gas Wells

Sagebrush Recovers at Oil and Gas Wells

Other Species Do Not

Sagebrush Recovers at Oil and Gas Wells“The most important questions have to do with the long-term behavior of systems,” says Indy Burke, University of Wyoming ecologist. The system she’s talking about, in this case, is western landscapes.