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Conservation groups are celebrating the approval of the wolverine restoration bill. They see Colorado as a key piece of a strategy to ensure the survival of the extremely solitary member of the weasel family.

The Biden administration has put out a beta version of what it calls the American Conservation and Stewardship Atlas, a massive mapping project that seeks to visualize conservation efforts across the country. It also is intended to show progress toward the administration鈥檚 goal of conserving or restoring 30% of American territory by 2030.

The agency says the new rule puts conservation on equal footing with other uses of public lands, like ranching and mining.

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There are dozens of conservation groups across the Mountain West working to protect the waters, lands and wildlife that make up the region. That includes a nonprofit in Nevada that is helping preserve an important tree species that鈥檚 increasingly threatened by climate change.

In the first three years, the Biden administration has protected millions of acres and spent billions on conservation.

As Oregon鈥檚 wolf population has grown over the last two decades, from 14 to at least 178, so have their encounters with livestock.

An USDA facility in Fort Collins is at the forefront of cryogenically preserving endangered species so researchers can be prepared for the worst in the future.

The state will have to decide how to protect the wetlands that now fall outside the purview of the Clean Water Act, which water policy experts are calling 鈥済ap waters.鈥�

More than 100 Democrats in Congress want to restore federal protections for wetlands and streams. Lawmakers are responding to a Supreme Court ruling from earlier this year that gutted protections for many small waterways.