An idea once considered radical—removing dams on rivers to restore fisheries—is becoming mainstream as scores of conservation efforts are paying off with restored river habitats and rejuvenated fisheries across North America. In 1981, when the environmental group Earth First! wanted a publicity...

You may never swing a shotgun after a sage grouse, the largest North American grouse, but you still have skin in the game in the fight for their future. That is because sage grouse represent something much larger than the upland birds themselves: the public lands and sagebrush steppe habitat...