The Ellwood Mesa Butterfly Grove used to be California's largest wintering site for monarch butterflies, but in 2024, only 30 butterflies were counted.

A landowner in the Yaak River Valley of northwest Montana has placed a 40-acre conservation easement on her family’s ...

As fishing goes, the sturgeon spearing season on Black Lake may be the shortest in the country: Six fish long. Starting at 8 a.m. on Feb. 1, about 500 fishers hoped to throw spears at sturgeon passing ...

The sturgeon spearing harvest is usually dictated in part by the water clarity and ice conditions. The longest the season can ...

This essay is a follow up on the photograph published in the Jan. 16 Commonwealth (pictured above) that showed duckweed ...