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A Renter’s Market: BirdReturns Offers Innovative Conservation
How can conservationists protect one million acres of migratory bird habitat in Central California, particularly when that property is highly valuable agricultural land? The solution: Pop-up wetlands.
Coasts at Risk Report Expands Thinking on Natural Hazards
Nature has an important role in preparing for, and recovering from, natural disasters on coasts around the world. A new report substantiates the link.
Beavers Versus Old Growth: The Tough Reality of Conservation
If ecologically important but abundant native beavers threaten ecologically important but imperiled old growth hemlocks, what should conservationists do? Leave it to beaver? Or save the hemlocks?
Logging Ash to Save Hemlocks
The preserve was established specifically to protect trees from logging. But what happens when waves of forest pests are going to kill trees anyway? What if logging one tree could help save another? What trees live and what trees die? Welcome to forest conservation decisions, 2014 edition.
Can Integrated Pest Management Save the Eastern Hemlock?
Around the eastern US, hemlocks are dying. Fast. Can anything save them? Some hopeful answers emerge from a Pennsylvania forest preserve.
Notes from the Deer Wars: Science & Values in the Eastern Forest
The science is clear: over-abundant white-tailed deer are having powerful and negative impacts on the eastern forest. The human values around this issue, though, are anything but clear. Are environmentalists -- and tradition-bound deer hunters -- willing to pull the trigger?
Change Comes to the Eastern Forest: Five-Part Series Begins Today
Woodbourne Forest Preserve in north-central Pennsylvania was to remain pristine and free of human management. Free of human management, that is, unless there were extraordinary, unforeseen circumstances. Those extraordinary circumstances are here. Welcome to forest conservation in the Anthropocene.
Pygmy Rabbit Quest
Meet the pygmy rabbit: the tiniest rabbit on earth, and one of the most difficult North American mammals to spot. Our blogger journeys to southwest Wyoming to learn more about this elusive inhabitant of big sagebrush.
Connecting The Ocelot’s Home on the Range
In South Texas, ocelot conservation means connecting the dots. But those "dots" happen to be thornscrub habitat -- thick brush incompatible with most human use. How do you restore a habitat that ranchers have spent decades working hard to clear.
Every Cat Counts: Conserving Ocelots on the Border
In South Texas, ocelots cling to a precarious existence. How do these spotted cats survive against a backdrop of lost habitat, roads and now a border fence? Can conservation efforts help?
Nilgai: Blue Antelope of the Anthropocene
Once the nilgai roamed expansive Indian plains as it avoided stalking tigers. A creature of wilderness. Today, you're more likely to find it in sprawling cities, or galloping along a Gulf Coast seashore. A creature of the Anthropocene.
CSI Channel Islands: Can the Island Scrub-jay Help to Think about Climate Change?
Solving the mystery of Santa Rosa's island scrub-jays could refine thinking on how to manage vulnerable species under climate change.
