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Goats roam hills in Jefferson County

Fire mitigation goats are back in action – this time at Lockheed Martin Waterton Campus

The Denver skyline forms a backdrop for the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge

Government and Politics

Colorado only thinks of bison as livestock. A new bill could mean new protections for their wild counterparts

By Kiara DeMare

A close-up of a pheasant standing in green grass. The game bird is various shades of brown with some light redish feathers around its neck and black tail feathers. It is about the size of a chicken.

You can raise chickens in your backyard in parts of Colorado, but what about pheasants?

Canada Lynx

Canada lynx proposed for new habitat protections in Colorado, New Mexico Rockies

By The Associated Press

A gray wolf walks through a green mountain meadow

Wildlife advocates are offering a $50,000 bounty to help catch wolf poachers

Along Highway 133 near Redtsone

How a second Trump administration might reverse drilling and energy restrictions on public lands in Colorado

By Ishan Thakore

Antonia the cloned black-footed ferret pops up through a hole in the floor of her enclosure and she looks at something just past the camera.

Endangered cloned ferret gives birth, in a first for conservation

By Ishan Thakore

California Mountain Lion Attack

Ban on mountain lion, lynx and bobcat hunting defeated

By Ishan Thakore

MOUNTAIN LION

In big cat ballot measure, a divide that sees hunting as a foundation of wildlife management or a brutal relic

A blackback land crab

Halloween crab found at Denver International Airport finds new home at Denver Zoo

Wildlife officers work to remove a black bear under a backyard deck

After moving an ‘absolute unit of a bear’ Colorado Parks and Wildlife reminds people to be bear aware this ‘Fat Bear Fall’

Endangered Wolves Population

Colorado plans to release up to 15 additional wolves this winter

WILD HORSE ROUNDUP AT LITTLE BOOK CLIFFS HOLDING PEN

There are too many wild horses on too little land, federal officials say. Here’s how they’re thinning a herd in Colorado

By Hart Van Denburg

A small hog baby with a reddish-orange coat and stripes stands in some strawlike bedding

Going hog wild at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo with a new porcine baby

By Shanna Lewis

Bear Necessities

Accidental killing of a mother bear in Silverton ignites anger and calls for change

A donkey eats hay out of a blue feedbag attached to a red trailer.

Fairplay’s ‘Burro Days’ clops along into its 75th year

By Asa Gartrell

California Zoo Condors

Help wildlife officials find out who killed a critically endangered California condor

By Kiara DeMare

A deer with a bucket lid around its neck

Mule deer with bucket lid around its neck for weeks rescued by Colorado Wildlife staff

By Stephanie Rivera

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