A proposed bill would have the Ohio Department of Natural Resources conduct studies to determine the feasibility of reintroducing elk to Ohio’s forests.

The arrival of European settlers, overhunting, lost habitat and disease wiped out the moose in the Lower Peninsula and later ...

From herd age ratios to cross-state migrations, experts reveal how data models determine each season’s bag limits.

Researchers at McGill University and the United States Forest Service have found that plants living in areas where human ...

Idaho's total incarcerated population is above its capacity in state prisons. The cost to house those state inmates in county jails and in out-of-state facilities has risen sharply. Idaho’s rising ...

(NEXSTAR) – The U.S. saw a year of slow population growth between 2024 and 2025, but not every state is feeling the same slowdown, newly released estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show. Nationally ...

Protect the Adirondacks has been calling for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to conduct a so-called “carry capacity” study. The group says the state agency has failed to ...

As Oregon leaders seek to revitalize the state’s business reputation, economists see conflicting signs about where Portland— and the state as a whole — is headed. The economic and population dips ...

One in four people globally live in a country whose population has already peaked in size. 11 July 2024 - According to the World Population Prospects 2024: Summary of Results published today, it is ...

HALL. NEW TONIGHT THE NINTH CIRCUIT HAS DEEMED CALIFORNIA’S OPEN CARRY BAN IN MOST COUNTIES UNCONSTITUTIONAL. THE RULING COMES AFTER A SISKIYOU COUNTY MAN CHALLENGED THE STATE’S OPEN CARRY ...

A federal appeals court on Friday struck down California’s ban on openly carrying guns across most of the state. In a 2–1 decision, the San Francisco-based Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled ...

Abstract: Distributed optimization is crucial for managing complex, large-scale systems, yet faces challenges in achieving robustness and efficiency under practical constraints. This paper introduces ...