But will California’s platforms stay in the ocean once the oil runs out?
Wildlife
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
Has the Obama administration hobbled the Endangered Species Act?
A new policy may set the law back half a century.
Posted inOctober 13, 2014: Charles Bowden's Fury
The Latest: Wyoming’s wolf delisting thrown out
A U.S. District Court hands management back to the feds.
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The walrus detectives
What’s behind the Alaska walrus haul-outs? Everyone’s calling climate change, but the truth is, we don’t know.
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The Earth has half as many animals as it did in 1970
In the Western U.S., megafauna is on the rise — but amphibians are in trouble.
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Extreme Makeover, the BLM episode
How a gigantic federal bureaucracy is positioning itself to manage resources at a “landscape” level.
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A plan for California desert conservation comes online
Will it stop more solar and wind projects from being built in the wrong places?
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
A new century with carnivores
Learning to see predators as companions, not competition.
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Fur flies over Montana bobcat farm
Will animal rights activists keep a bobcat farmer from setting up shop in Montana?
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Sweeping new rule for Alaska’s predator control
Federal versus state wildlife politics get even hotter.
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Former governor Tony Knowles on Alaska’s predator policies
During his 1994 to 2002 tenure, former Democratic Alaska governor Tony Knowles implemented non-lethal — albeit expensive — ways to control predator populations in Alaska: Instead of shooting wolves from helicopters, for example, he relocated and sterilized packs that preyed on the caribou herds Alaskans relied on for food. Since he’s left office, though, the […]
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
On the hunt for fireflies in Utah
Scientists find the flashing bugs after a 30-year search.
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Want a trophy buck? Ditch the camo and get a guide
Study looks at successful types of big game hunters
Posted inSeptember 1, 2014: Lost in the Woods
Zen and the art of wildflower science
In the Rocky Mountains, a long-term study yields surprises.
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New Mexico delays controversial Gila vote
Many unanswered questions remain about proposals to divert the state’s last undammed major river.
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Did Obama’s Interior hobble the Endangered Species Act?
A new policy sets the law back a half-century, conservationists say.
Posted inAugust 18, 2014: Alaska's Uncertain Food Future
Fear the falcon
A man and his raptors take on Washington’s dump scavengers.
Posted inGoat
Closure of federal sheep facility would be a victory for grizzlies
On the last day of August, 2012, a collared grizzly bear dubbed 726 by federal wildlife biologists vanished into the rugged Centennial Mountains on the Idaho-Montana border. A few weeks later, they recovered his collar near an established campsite. It appeared to have been cut, stoking suspicions that hunters may have shot the bear, a […]
Posted inAugust 18, 2014: Alaska's Uncertain Food Future
The Latest: Wild Mexican wolf pups born in Sierra Madre
The species still struggles on both sides of the border.