The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announced Thursday nearly $2.4 million in grants, supported by funding from McDonald’s USA and several of its suppliers, with the aim to help complete voluntary conservation easements on working ranches across the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain West and West Coast of the United States.

Wildfires in eastern Washington state forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane area while destroying at least 600 homes, business…

BILLINGS, Montana (AP) — Officials have transported 50 Yellowstone National Park bison to the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes in Montana.