Results for keyword: ecology
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Those buck-tooth dammers are back, big-time
Beavers return to northern Colorado, improving aquatic diversity.
by Chuck Bolsinger, Oct 05, 2011 -
Rural California schoolkids learn from fire-damaged forest
A rural California school builds an innovative curriculum around a nearby forest and the fire that burned it down in 2007.
by Jane Braxton Little, Feb 15, 2011 -
Fast Times at California's Petroleum High
A day in the life of the U.S.'s first high school academy devoted to oil production.
by Jeremy Miller, Feb 13, 2011 -
Anatomy of a medusahead invasion
Medusahead, an invasive grass, is set to take over the West.
by Cally Carswell, Dec 19, 2010 -
A taste of ecological medicine
In Nature’s Restoration, naturalist Peter Friederici looks at the people and places involved in the restoration of natural landscapes
by Sarah Mazze, Jul 23, 2007 -
Weathering the academic storm
Dan Donato, whose controversial study on salvage logging sparked an academic firestorm, talks about his research and all it provoked
by Erin Halcomb, May 28, 2007 -
Don’t move a mussel
Boaters, kayakers, anglers and other recreationists can help stop the spread of quagga mussels and other aquatic invasives by following a few simple rules.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Mar 05, 2007 -
Welcome to the Homogocene
The rapid spread of invasive species like quagga and zebra mussels could transform the once-isolated and ecologically unique West into just another McDonaldized patch of the planet.
by Paul Larmer, Mar 05, 2007 -
Wish You Weren’t Here
Quagga mussels – an extraordinarily prolific and costly invasive species – have appeared in Lake Mead, and no one is sure how to keep these unwanted newcomers from infesting the West.
by Michelle Nijhuis, Mar 05, 2007 -
An encyclopedia of rivers
The huge, copiously illustrated Rivers of North America is the first comprehensive effort to detail the current state of the continent’s rivers
by Irene Wanner, Nov 27, 2006






