Drought relief may only be temporary

Hunters and hikers were among almost 133,000 people opposing potential changes to the Travel Management Rule in national forests. Snowmobile groups were in the minority.

Paonia farmer Laura Parker describes how an unseasonably warm March and subsequent summer drought disrupted her seed-growing operation.

Earlier this month, a federal audit published by the Interior Department's Office of the Inspector General found that the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Missing and Murdered Unit is understaffed and its few special agents are spread thin — handling "unmanageable workloads" throughout Indian Country.

Wildfires are burning more land in watersheds that provide water to communities across the West, raising concerns about water quality and infrastructure as fires become larger and more frequent.