The Gila National Forest and Gila Wilderness encompass some 600,000 acres and draw thousands of tourists each year. They've also been the site of recent fires, which Weiss said worried him.

1. What is this proposal to reintroduce jaguars to the United States? In December 2022 the Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce endangered ...

ALBUQUERQUE— A federal judge today upheld efforts by the U.S. Forest Service to remove feral cattle from the Gila Wilderness, America’s first designated wilderness and one of the Southwest’s largest ...