http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. 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/341/16861 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. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis aquatic Harry Kew Wen ecology Lake St. Clair Ellen Marsden Colorado River biologists Biodiversity Lake Mead National Recreation Area Science exotic species St Las Vegas Boat Harbor Invasive species Paul Hebert Lake Mead zebra mussel Invasive Dreissena Las Vegas Baldwin 2010-08-17T23:00:10Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/341/16862 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. No publisher Paul Larmer Chinese elms A ecology Homogocene olives West Nile virus Plague of Rats and Rubbervines Russian cheatgrass Plants Biodiversity Exotics Science exotic species biotas global economy Invasive species quagga mussel biological diversity zebra mussel Invasive grasses Yvonne Baskin knapweed 2010-08-17T23:03:00Z 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/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/334/16676 The Peregrine Fund has proven that it can breed and release endangered birds of prey as often as it needs to, but do we want to treat Western wildlife like a crop of annual flowers that has to be re-seeded every year? No publisher Paul Larmer Threatened and Endangered biology Ogburn E.O. Wilson habitat lead bullets Stephanie Paige ecology Endangered Species Act salmon Birds peregrine falcon captive breeding programs endangered birds California condor aplomado falcon silvery minnow hatchery fish Peregrine Fund Species 2010-09-14T21:54:24Z 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/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/305/15752 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/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/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/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/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/341/16869 Boaters, kayakers, anglers and other recreationists can help stop the spread of quagga mussels and other aquatic invasives by following a few simple rules. No publisher Michelle Nijhuis Wildlife aquatic exotics Invasive kayaking Quagga mussels Sports Water boating ecology fishing invasive species swimming 2010-08-17T23:35:16Z 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