Can species evolve fast enough to keep up with changing wildfire conditions?
Wildlife
Posted inJanuary 11, 2024: The Creatures in Our Midst
Learning to live with musk oxen
The species were introduced to Alaska’s Seward Peninsula decades ago, without local consent. Now they pose danger to life and property.
Posted inJanuary 11, 2024: The Creatures in Our Midst
Can coexistence with wolves be bought?
When Colorado voted for wolf reintroduction, it also mandated compensation for ranchers. The hard part: figuring out the details.
Posted inJanuary 11, 2024: The Creatures in Our Midst
Bighorns, badgers, coyotes and Christmas tumbleweeds
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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The culling of Alaska’s bears and wolves
As the state’s wildlife numbers decline, predators are getting the blame. The true threat is much more complex.
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(Re)name that bird! Now’s your chance
The American Ornithological Society is renaming dozens of birds and wants the public’s help.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
Big-eared bats, badass boulders and very determined hikers
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024
How 3 Indigenous women are leading the way on climate change
These experts bring knowledge and justice to the climate conversation.
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Stories that made us green with envy in 2023
A roundup of the articles we wish we’d written ourselves this past year.
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Paws on the ground: How Colorado got its wolves back
Five wolves were released in remote western Colorado yesterday, marking the beginning of an ambitious reintroduction program.
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A Westerner’s guide to the Endangered Species Act
What you need to know about the law that’s shaped our region.
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Washington state residents ask: What is our wildlife agency for?
Public backlash over a new policy reveals a deeper divide over the future of conservation.
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
Does voluntary conservation work?
Can pre-listing conservation save the last native population of Arctic grayling in the Lower 48?
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
The Endangered Species Act by the numbers
Half a century of wins and losses.
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
The Endangered Species Act’s complicated legacy in Indian Country
The landmark law has served as both sword and shield.
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
The epic history of the Endangered Species Act
The two-volume ‘Codex of the Endangered Species Act’ takes a long look back — and forward.
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
Sagebrush Sasquatch, irritable elk and spiders that aren’t from Mars
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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We need to reframe our thinking about what’s wild
Why we should take a look from wildlife’s perspectives.
Posted inDecember 1, 2023: December 2023
How the New Mexico whiptail became a gay icon
All members of the lizard species are female and reproduce asexually through a process called parthenogenesis.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023
Too many snakes, a hard-rockin’ dog and a GPS truck-up
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.