U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Secretary Doug Burgum’s order grants that DOGE official oversight over the department's consolidation process, including control over funding, policy and personnel decisions.

“Improving the Service’s interactions with the public, simplifying regulations, accelerating permitting with technology, and relying more on education, voluntary compliance, and verification,” he told senators on the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

President Trump is looking to a longtime leader of Wyoming wildlife to oversee the nation’s – as director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

An initial count of total elk harvests on the National Elk Refuge, an annual hunt with special restrictions, are low due to winter’s slow start.

It includes critical habitat designations for the first time in the Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking a federal appeals court to reinstate a rule that removed gray wolves from Endangered Species Act protections.

Conservation groups say they intend to sue the federal government if it doesn’t take steps to protect the world’s smallest rabbit, which is found across the Mountain West.

They say states like Wyoming liberalized the legal killings of wolves, which is why they must be protected. The intent to sue from these groups came shortly after news broke about an alleged wolf torture incident in Sublette County that sparked international outrage.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is giving $3.4 million to a Mountain West tribe and environmental planners to fight invasive species.

Wildlife officials are asking the public for help maintaining community safety in bear country.