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U.S. moves to protect potentially endangered wildflower amid …

In this photo taken June 1, 2019, by Patrick Donnelly of the Center for Biological Diversity is the rare desert wildflower Tiehm's buckwheat in the Silver Peak Range about 120 miles south of Reno, Nev. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating the high-desert range halfway between Reno and Las Vegas as critical habitat for the Tiehm's buckwheat. It is also the site of a proposed lithium mine by the Australian-based Ioneer USA Corp. (Patrick Donnelly/Center for Biological Diversity via AP)

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Sen. Feinstein seeks probe into how many captured wild …

In this June 29, 2018, file photo, wild horses drink from a watering hole outside Salt Lake City. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has approved construction of corrals in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah that can hold more than 8,000 wild horses captured on federal rangeland in the West, a move that should allow the agency to accelerate roundups that have been slowed by excess capacity at existing holding facilities. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Dixie Fire torches homes, intensifies as blazes batter …

Flames from the Dixie Fire consume a home in the Indian Falls community of Plumas County, Calif., Saturday, July 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Company withdraws plans for largest U.S. solar field north …

A panel-washing robot cleans a row of solar panels during a dedication ceremony to commemorate the completion of the 102-acre, 15-megawatt Solar Array II Generating Station at Nellis Air Force Base on Feb. 16, 2016, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Ammon Bundy convicted in Idaho trespassing trial, sentenced …

Ammon Bundy, in front, leader of an armed anti-government militia, returns to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters near Burns, Oregon Jan. 5, 2016, following a news conference. (Rob Kerr/AFP/Getty Images)

‘Nothing looks good’: California and other western states …

In this May 14, 2021, photo provided by the High Desert Museum, U.S. Forest Service firefighters carry out a prescribed burn on the grounds of the High Desert Museum, near Bend, Oregon. The prescribed burn is part of a massive effort in wildlands across the West to prepare for a fire season that follows the worst one on record. (Kyle Kosma/High Desert Museum via AP)

Burning Man mulling required proof of COVID-19 vaccination …

The sun rises behind a wood and neon statue, the center piece of the annual Burning Man festival north of Gerlach, Nev., on Aug. 26, 2002. (Debra Reid / Associated Press)

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Mass dinosaur death site in Utah may prove tyrannosaurs …

This photo provided by the Bureau of Land Management shows a "Hollywood" dinosaur specimen that was discovered approximately two miles north of the Rainbows and Unicorns Quarry on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah on Feb. 26, 2019. Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled Monday, April 19, 2021, found. (Dr. Alan Titus/Bureau of Land Management via AP)

U.S. judge blocks Nevada grazing project as sage …

In this April 20, 2013, file photo, male greater sage grouse perform mating rituals for a female grouse, not pictured, on a lake outside Walden, Colo.(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Biden’s energy plan may receive boost from lithium …

In this Jan. 30, 2017, file photo, waste salt, foreground, is shown near an evaporation pond at the Silver Peak lithium mine near Tonopah, Nev. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Conservation groups blast Trump logging plan aimed …

In this Aug. 15, 2019, file photo, is a juniper tree cut down as part of a giant project to remove junipers encroaching on sagebrush habitat needed by imperiled sage grouse in southwestern Idaho. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler, File)

California environmentalists blast federal oil lease …

Pump jacks are a familiar sight in Kern County, where the Trump administration plans to auction off more than 4,000 acres for oil and gas development.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Feds release plan to remove, change vegetation to …

Firefighters set a backfire to protect homes as they try to contain the Blue Ridge Fire in Chino Hills on Oct. 27, 2020. (David McNew / Getty Images)

Federal judge removes Trump public lands boss for …

U.S. Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William "Perry" Pendley speaks at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colorado on Oct. 11, 2019. (Matthew Brown / Associated Press)