http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/wotr/those-buck-tooth-dammers-are-back-big-time Beavers return to northern Colorado, improving aquatic diversity. No publisher Chuck Bolsinger Western forests ecology Chuck Bolsinger Sam Bixler beaver colonies Beavers wildlife biologists Pennock Creek Colorado State University forestry camp Dave Bolger beaver dams Western landscape Colorado Rocky Mountains friendship 2011-10-04T17:09:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.2/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. No publisher Jane Braxton Little Greenville High School wildfires ecology Plumas National Forest forest health Sidney Deschenes Moonlight Fire education 2011-02-16T15:33:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.2/fast-times-at-californias-petroleum-high A day in the life of the U.S.'s first high school academy devoted to oil production. No publisher Jeremy Miller Greenville High School wildfires ecology Plumas National Forest forest health Sidney Deschenes Moonlight Fire education 2011-02-14T15:52:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/42.22/anatomy-of-a-medusahead-invasion Medusahead, an invasive grass, is set to take over the West. No publisher Cally Carswell Medusahead exotic plants invasive grasses ecology cheatgrass range management Roger Sheley 2010-12-15T16:54:58Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/350/17130 In Nature’s Restoration, naturalist Peter Friederici looks at the people and places involved in the restoration of natural landscapes No publisher Sarah Mazze science ecology Nature’s Restoration Peter Friederici Glen Canyon Dam 2010-07-21T22:08:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16446 Is it really true that the U.S. has no choice but to employ a harsh form of triage in deciding which endangered species should live, and which must die? No publisher Greg Hanscom Threatened and Endangered Endangered Species Act Rob Roy Ramey II ambulances EMTs medics triage accidents scientists wildlife biology ecology Preble’s meadow jumping mouse subspecies U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service federal government environmental issues environment 2010-02-05T09:34:33Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/316/16109 Despite its problems and failures – many of them arising from the conflict between the United States’ growing population and our declining wildlife habitat – the Endangered Species Act is a necessary law No publisher Paul Larmer Communities Communities in Transition Threatened and Endangered Endangered Species Act Richard M. Nixon Congress wildlife Richard Pombo population growth Arizona population Nevada population demographics Tony Davis ecosystems ecology animals plants critical habitat conservation environmental laws 2010-02-05T08:56:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15767 John Leland’s book, Aliens in the Backyard, discusses both the dangers and the benefits arising from the vast number of exotic species in North America – including human beings No publisher Staff Wildlife Other Wildlife Agriculture Weeds Exotic Exotic species botany biology plants animals weeds Asian tiger mosquitoes eucalyptus trees Japanese cherry trees honeybees carrots imported plants imported animals introduced species ecology 2010-02-05T09:26:11Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/305/15752 Rancher Jim Williams believes the Quivira Coalition helped change his life, but restoring his arid rangeland has proved difficult, and between drought and an uncertain economy, the future of his ranch still hangs in the balance No publisher Tony Davis Communities Communities in Transition Advocacy Groups Consensus Grazing Jim Williams Agua Fria allotment Quivira Coaltion drought grazing ranching Forest Service rest-rotation grazing John Pierson Courtney White Guy McPherson range science ecology stream restoration forest thinning Kirk Gadzia cattle business 2010-02-05T09:26:07Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/302/15672 Ecologist Charlie Crisafulli has spent twenty-five years studying life on Mount St. Helens, especially the boreal toad, which is in decline almost everywhere else, but thriving at the volcano No publisher David B. Williams Threatened and Endangered Species Charlie Crisafulli boreal toads Mount St. Helens volcanoes volcanic eruptions early successional species extinction catastrophe natural disasters wildfire amphibians ecology 2010-02-05T09:25:43Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/291/15279 The Pine Island Paradox by Kathleen Dean Moore takes a philosophical and poetic look at islands and rivers No publisher Staff Human Beings and Nature Nature writing literature ecology natural philosophy 2010-02-05T09:23:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/271/14656 Studies by Montana’s Andrew Hansen and Colorado’s Rick Knight offer some of the first scientific evidence that preserving ranch lands provides important benefits to surrounding ecosystems No publisher Jon Christensen Agriculture Livestock Ranching Biodiversity Andrew Hansen Rick Knight biodiversity ranch lands open space grazing Gunnison sage grouse Clait Braun Gunnison County Ranchland Conservation Legacy Susan Lohr wildlife biology ecology Science 2010-02-05T09:56:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/267/14528 Some fishermen fear that individual fishing quotas are likely to enrich corporations at the expense of small fishermen, while doing little to help the oceans No publisher Rebecca Clarren ecology fishing industry IFQs Marine Fish Conservation Network management ocean community-based resource marine resources Individual fishing quotas Fishing Industry over-fishing sustainable fishing 2010-02-05T09:56:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/347/17031 Dan Donato, whose controversial study on salvage logging sparked an academic firestorm, talks about his research and all it provoked No publisher Erin Halcomb fire wildfires John Logging Sessions environmental issues science Dan Donato Biscuit Fire forestry forest fires Oregon State ecology research conifer re-growth politics salvage logging University 2010-08-06T19:52:03Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/281/14963 Groundwater pumping in the Sierra Vista area may be already reducing water flow to the San Pedro River No publisher Tony Davis Sierra Vista Arizona hydrology groundwater Don Pool U.S. Geological Survey pumping Rivers Water Resources U.S. Army Corps of ecology San Pedro River dro Julie Stromberg Arizona Department of aquifers Engineers Mark Anderson irrigated agriculture 2012-04-25T17:58:28Z News Article