Black bears in Colorado's urban areas can stay awake year-round if unnatural food sources remain available. Do your part by keeping food sources like trash and bird seed secured all year long. (Photo courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife.)

Humans must remain bear aware even as bear activity slows

Market goat show with four entries and a ringman. (Journal photo by Jennifer Theurer.)

National Western hiring over 400 seasonal positions

Volunteers bag potatoes at the third annual James C. Hageman Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Center potato harvest earlier this month. (Photo courtesy of Cent$ible Nutrition Program.)

Potato harvest benefits Food Bank of Wyoming

(Photo: Colorado State University)

USDA Rural Development invests $500,000 to help rural business owners with energy grants

(Photo: Colorado State University)

If the wells run dry

Rock Creek Cowboys (By Janey Beumeler - Pullman, Washington)

Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame announces 2024 inductees

Tallgrass prairie

Wildfire doesn’t slow invasive annual grass expansion in Great Basin

U.S. Capitol Building dome in Washington DC.(Photo by Kristen Labadie, University Communication and Marketing.)

Poll: Rural Nebraskans see lack of civility in politics as serious problem