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Cottonwood, Morrill Fires contained, new fires scorch Sandhills
2+ hour, 21+ min ago (386+ words) NewsNews | Mar 28, 2026 Within 24 hours after Incident Management declared the Morrill Fire in Morrill, Garden, Grant, Arthur and Keith counties contained, dry lightning sent Nebraska ranchers and volunteer fire fighters along with state and federal emergency personnel back into battle with…...
USFWS and Interior request comments on grizzlies, Colorado gray wolves, Mexican wolves
2+ week, 1+ day ago (468+ words) News | Mar 13, 2026 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior are requesting comments with regard to the management of the Colorado gray wolf program, grizzly bears and Mexican wolves. The 60-day comment period is open until May…...
Mizzou researchers uncover how plants regulate root growth
2+ week, 3+ day ago (465+ words) News | Mar 11, 2026 What's the key to growing resilient crops that can survive tough conditions? Researchers at the University of Missouri are getting to the root of it " literally. Researchers in the Walter Gassmann lab at Mizzou's Bond Life Sciences Center…...
The next Green Revolution: Plant hormone therapy could improve global food security
2+ week, 5+ day ago (479+ words) News | Mar 9, 2026 Plants have an immune system, like people, and when it is triggered by threats like disease or pests, a plant's defenses are activated. But there's a downside to this protective mechanism: The plant's growth is suppressed when its…...
Details revealed about the wolf that died in Colorado Parks and Wildlife custody
3+ week, 1+ day ago (479+ words) News | Mar 6, 2026 Colorado Parks and Wildlife has revealed new information about how a wolf died in its custody in Routt County this January. The male wolf, tagged 2305, was around 3 years old and among those translocated from Oregon in December 2023. The…...
Soil-moisture system will yield information for farmers, foresters and forecasters
3+ week, 3+ day ago (404+ words) News | Mar 4, 2026 Colorado State University is leading an effort to track a critical but unseen resource in Colorado: water stored in soil. This statewide effort to enhance soil moisture monitoring is producing important insights that can help everyone from farmers…...
Recent snow helped somewhat, but snow drought lingers
1+ mon, 23+ hour ago (700+ words) News | Feb 27, 2026 The big question is did the mid-February winter storm make a dent in the Intermountain West snow drought? Bottom line, extreme warmth and record-breaking temps have been a major driver for the severe snow drought conditions across a…...
Researchers develop new tools to turn grain crops into biosensors
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (364+ words) News | Feb 5, 2026 A collaborative team of researchers from the'Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the University of Florida, Gainesville and University of Iowa have developed groundbreaking tools that allow grasses " including major grain crops like corn " to act as living biosensors…...
National Academy of Sciences salutes Schnable for pioneering work
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (627+ words) News | Feb 12, 2026 James Schnable, Nebraska Corn presidential chair and professor of agronomy and horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has earned the 2026 National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences. He is the youngest researcher to receive the…...
Slow going, so far, for Intermountain West snowpack
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (651+ words) News | Feb 6, 2026 All five states in the Intermountain West region (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming) had their warmest December on record." The recent record-setting warm weather in the West produced rain, instead of snow, particularly at"mid-elevations. Unfortunately, these…...