White nose in bats found in the West, a 1300 mile jump from its previous known location. The disease that’s wiped out at least 7 million bats in the East and Midwest has now jumped to the West. Hikers in Washington, 30 miles east of...
wildlife
Minnesota is undergoing a major crisis. The walleye population is crashing. Not even the Northwest with its salmon has a cultural relationship with a fish like the people of Minnesota.
Sometimes I read about art projects dealing with socially conscious themes and think "wow, this shows a real lack of self-awareness." That's how I felt when reading about this: Nick.
The U.S. is now cracking down to some extent on the importation of lion trophies after the killing of Cecil earlier this year. It's not going as far as some European nations which are banning them entirely. But it is using the Endangered Species Act...
The greatest environmental issue of the twenty-first century is climate change. The science is nearly unanimous that humans are causing the climate to warm rapidly because of emissions of greenhouse.
What would happen if you ran a zoo and decided to put all the big scary American mammals in the same enclosure together? America found out the answer when a.
In 1950, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game produced a film on moving fur-bearing animals around to maximize their production. Watching the beginning is amusing for how managing marten is somehow connected to the Turnerian view of western history that mid-century American land managers...
Cue the right wing freakout in California that the wolves are going to eat our children.* The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has photographic evidence of five gray.
I am more or less out of touch for the next week due to a confluence of page proofs for my logging book, family obligations, and Oregon hiking. But I.
This is a good piece on the problems facing the Andean condor, the world's second largest bird. Basically, even though condors, like other vultures, do the ecosystem a tremendous amount.
The bull trout, an endangered trout species of the Pacific Northwest and southwest Canada, in part because of introduced brook trout. The cost of trout fishing upon our river ecosystems.