Environment

A $23M IIJA-backed grant landed two weeks after the state imposed emergency fire restrictions, even as $445M in Hermit's Peak recovery claims remain unresolved.

The Gardiner Diversion, an irrigation structure near Yellowstone's north entrance, is being redesigned to restore fish migration without cutting off ranchers' water rights.

The project targets water quality and habitat on a stream that drains into Lake Champlain's long-impaired South Bay.

The city wants to cut utility bills and clear the air inside aging homes, with wildfire smoke and high radon levels making the stakes concrete.

The project aims to solve two problems at once: healing scarred land left behind by mining and industrial use, while building a homegrown native seed supply that barely exists today.

A century of fire suppression has left forests dangerously overgrown, and getting private landowners on board is the hardest part of fixing it.