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A dragonfly on a burned tree limb

The dragonfly mating game has been upended, new study finds. And that has repercussions up and down the food chain

By Andrea Dukakis

A large bull elk stands alert in a dense forest, surrounded by evergreen trees and rocky terrain. Its antlers stretch wide above its head, and its reddish-brown coat contrasts with the cool, shaded woodland backdrop.

Authorities search for suspects in separate elk poaching in Las Animas County and near Great Sand Dunes

By Briana Heaney

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Government and Politics

Hunting permits on Southern Colorado’s military sites suspended due to government shutdown

By Andrea Chalfin

A woman in a bright yellow vests uses clippers to cut a barbed wire fence.

Barbed wire fences dot the West. There’s a growing movement to take them down — for wildlife

A man in a ballcap makes a kissy face at a brown fish he’s holding.

Colorado Wonders

The state is on a mission to remove invasive fish, but what happens to all the dead fish?

Pikes Peak region to receive $165,000 to bear-proof trash cans

By Briana Heaney

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Colorado Wonders

Animal crossing signs line roads all across the state. How do the signs with lights know when to turn on?

This is why rabbits with ‘horns’ in Colorado are being called ‘Frankenstein bunnies’

By The Associated Press

Chase Nicholson gets a fish on the line in the Smallmouth Bass Tournament at Ridgway State Park

Western Slope fishing rodeo tackles invasive species

Deer at Little Book Cliffs northwest of De Beque on Colorado’s Western Slope

Chaffee County works to address high instances of wildlife related car crashes

By Briana Heaney

Life and Culture

Listen: Why the Denver Zoo is scoping out condors with drones in Peru

By Juanita Hurtado Huérfano

Deer at Little Book Cliffs northwest of De Beque on Colorado’s Western Slope

Herds over highways: Colorado’s largest wildlife overpass is now under construction above I-25

By Havalin Haskell

A large bull elk stands alert in a dense forest, surrounded by evergreen trees and rocky terrain. Its antlers stretch wide above its head, and its reddish-brown coat contrasts with the cool, shaded woodland backdrop.

How your cellphone data could help wildlife thrive, according to Colorado researchers

By Arlo Pérez Esquivel

Colorado journalist and author Ben Goldfarb, left, speaks with fellow environmental writer Dan Flores

‘Deer luge’ and umbrage with ‘Abundance’: Author Ben Goldfarb on the state of conservation

By Ryan Warner and Tom Hesse

Grand Junction minor league baseball team embraces threatened Colorado fish by becoming the Humpback Chubs

A tropical ‘snakebird’ just landed in Boulder, and it’s turning heads

A wolf sprinting through a field towards the tree line

Why Colorado wildlife officials killed a wolf suspected of preying on Pitkin County livestock

Prairie dogs in Weld County

Colorado Wonders

Here are some of the extremely unusual animals you can own in Colorado, and some more familiar ones you can’t

By Megan Verlee

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