Oregon released its latest report on the state of the wolf population in its borders. It's looking good. You can read the whole PDF here. The minimum known count of wolves in Oregon at the end of 2024 was 204 wolves, up from 178 last...
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Everything is terrible, so occasionally it's worth noting something that is not terrible. One of those things is the expansion of wolves in California. Earlier this month, the California Department.
How did Covid lockdowns impact the natural world? Did humans not being around as much help or hurt other species? This is an interesting study on the question, demonstrating a.
There's mourning in New York today. Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl that escaped from the Bronx Zoo last year and became a spectacle in Central Park, has died after flying into a window. This is a good moment to note that upwards of one billion birds...
We need some good news. This is some. For the first time in over 100 years, a gray wolf has been spotted in Giant Sequoia National Monument in southern California,.
I gotta say, I almost think is a good thing, both to remind rich conservationists what really goes on out there that they can't buy and to bring scrutiny to.
Back in 2001, some people were putting together a compilation of the weird and awesome undersea documentaries of the French filmmaker Jean Painleve. They didn't want to play these with the original voiceover. No, they got Yo La Tengo to jam to them and then...
You think you know pretty much everything about American environmental history (remember that this is my training, not labor history) but then you read something like this and it kinda.
I've spent more than my share of time in rural western Pennsylvania and the only way to describe it is as a beautiful and surprisingly wild place with an aging,.
Forget the Bambi thing--there are too many deer. Effectively, in 2023, all animals in the United States are managed. If you create a scenario where you strip away the apex predators--wolves in this case--then you are going to see enormous spikes in grazing animals well...
As many of you know, I grew up around the controversy around the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest and what that meant for the timber industry. My dad.
I have no idea how many animals will be able to adapt and not go extinct due to climate change, and that includes human beings. But it is interesting that.