Utah has no legal standing to second-guess President Biden's judgment in restoring the original boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in the state, a federal judge has ruled.

A federal judge on Friday chastised the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to produce a nationwide gray wolf recovery plan, saying individual plans for the Eastern timber wolf, Northern Rocky Mountain wolf, and Mexican wolf don't meet the requirements under the Endangered Species Act to develop nationwide plan for the gray wolf.

The devastating wildfires that have run across Maui continue to keep the Summit and Kīpahulu districts of Haleakalā National Park closed, with reopening not expected before Monday.

In the wake of two lawsuits that claimed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to work to boost the wild population of red wolves in North Carolina, the agency has reached a settlement that lays out a process for helping the species avoid extinction.