Birders flock to the Mountain Plover Festival in Karval each year—and leave the rural community more connected than they found it. Though it is not listed under the Endangered Species Act, the ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - The mountain plover does not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service which last proposed listing the species last June.

Have you ever taken a wrong turn on a road trip and ended up hundreds of miles from home, eating mole crabs on a strange beach? No, it's not the plot of "The Hangover Part IV." It seems to be what ...

Research conducted by the Colorado Division of Wildlife helped the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determine that the mountain plover does not need protection under the Endangered Species Act. On May ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening public comment on its proposal to list the mountain plover, a grassland bird of the mountain West, as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The ...

KARVAL, Colo. — Russell Davis has spent his whole life working on his family’s ranch in Lincoln County, so when he saw a stranger’s vehicle parked on his property back in 2001, he said he knew he had ...

KARVAL- As he rides past the vast open plains near Karval, farmer and rancher Jeff Thornton knows he's not alone. "They've learned to work with us, and we just work around them also," he said.

In my relatively short time living on the Hi-Line, the climate has gone from one extreme to the other. Although water wasn't exceedingly scarce when I first arrived in this part of the world, it was a ...

After two years of no in-person activities due to COVID-19, bird watchers will return to southeast Colorado next weekend for a niche celebration. That's the Mountain Plover Festival, honoring the ...