A new book seeks answers about the future of the iconic fish.
Nick Neely
Posted inAugust 7, 2017: Los Promotores
The West’s newest bird species has a beak like a crowbar
A recently discovered species of crossbill already faces extinction.
Posted inAugust 6, 2012: Of Birds and Men
The Salt Pond Puzzle: Restoring South San Francisco Bay
FREMONT, CALIFORNIA We were on patrol. Caitlin Robinson-Nilsen, a young biologist in shades and a ponytail, steered the 4WD Explorer along a muddy levee in Fremont, Calif., and I rode shotgun, staying vigilant. She surveys snowy plovers –– adorable, six-inch, two-ounce, skittering shorebirds, with black collars and eye-patches –– as the waterbird program director for […]
Posted inArticles
On the prowl with Oregon’s pygmy owls
On his first Father’s Day as a parent, John Deshler is in Portland’s Forest Park. When I called several days ago, he was checking on a northern pygmy-owl nest site, carrying 5-month Henley with him. “My baby’s been good luck,” Deshler says. “I don’t bring her out here very often, but we did find a […]
Posted inWotr
Alien life, it turns out, is much closer than Mars
Driving out Highway 167 north of California’s salty Mono Lake, you whiz by a jeep trail that heads for a crescent shore known as Ten Mile Beach. Few people find it, fewer still swim there. Once the bottom of the lake, this wide beach was gradually exposed as Los Angeles diverted the lake’s tributaries, starting […]
Posted inDecember 6, 2010: Toxic Past, Toxic Present
A visit to a ghost town in San Francisco Bay
The course of time and tide
Posted inNovember 8, 2010: Dr. No
Dam removal for dummies
Your plain-English guide to more free-flowing rivers
Posted inJuly 19, 2010: The Ute Paradox
Case in point
Artifacts roadshow connects archaeologists to lost treasures
Posted inJune 21, 2010: Immersed in the Wild
An infestation of the imagination, in a bark beetle lab
Trucker trades the open road for beetle research
Posted inApril 26, 2010: Nevada's Pot of Gold
Reduce, reuse, re … steelhead?
A lunker case of deja vu
Posted inMarch 1, 2010: The War Next Door
The smoke police
Bay Area air quality inspectors on the alert
Posted inFebruary 15, 2010: Prodigal Dogs
One long haul
On Jan. 7, a train hauled 136 containers of uranium tailings away from the old Atlas mill site along the Colorado River just north of Moab, Utah — the biggest load since the colossal cleanup effort began last May. Twice a day, locomotives chug off from a siding near the 439-acre site (130 acres of […]
Posted inFebruary 1, 2010: 'The environment ... is where we live'
Catch-and-release at HCN
A new and very talented crop of interns has just joined HCN. They’ll be here for the next six months, learning how a nonprofit media outlet works, and researching, interviewing and writing stories for us. A recipient of the Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, Nicholas Neely arrived in Paonia after six months in a remote Oregon […]