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  • Backcountry lessons from the Lost Forest of Oregon

    Backcountry lessons from the Lost Forest of Oregon

    It’s not easy to find the Lost Forest of eastern Oregon, but once you’re there you’re likely to meet some interesting local wildlife.

  • Primer 5: Wildlife

    How far are we willing to go to accommodate wild creatures?

  • Too many elk and not enough tough love

    Jeff Welsch decries the “ungulate welfare” on display in the overcrowded winter feeding grounds of Wyoming’s National Elk Refuge.

  • Too many elk and not enough tough love

    Jeff Welsch decries the “ungulate welfare” on display in the overcrowded winter feeding grounds of Wyoming’s National Elk Refuge.

  • Feeding time

    Will Rounds, who was once a very squeamish vegetarian, describes hacking apart the body of an elk to feed wolves at Mission:Wolf.

  • Remembering our wildness

    In The Animal Dialogues, Colorado author Craig Childs writes of chance encounters with wild animals.

  • Two weeks in the West

    Quagga mussels hit the jackpot in Nevada; Lakes Mead and Powell are in trouble; lots and lots and lots of snow – and a few ambitious ski resorts; and Colorado is building a vegetated overpass for wildlife on I-70.

  • Gone geese

    Charles Finn has had the carcass of a Canada goose in the back of his pickup for a week, pondering its life and death as he drives through the Montana winter.

  • Hank, the non-cow dog

    Joe Barnhart is trying to train his dog to stay away from wildlife – something he hopes his neighbors will do as well.

  • Bears in the burbs, cougars in the chicken coops, oh my!

    Monique Cole thinks Westerners are much too ready to panic and call 911 every time a wild animal wanders into a suburban neighborhood.

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