Small chips in snail shells provide a 100,000-year record on California’s crustaceans.
Wildlife
Wildlife cameras may be key to understanding the threatened species’ response to climate change.
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Approximately $68 million will be delivered to more than 100 projects across the country — many of which are based in the West.
Despite conservation efforts to save the po’ouli, the species was declared extinct in 2019.
After Miguel Ordeñana discovered mountain lion P-22 in urban LA, he became a key advocate for habitat connectivity, which is essential for the species’ survival in Southern California.
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
For years, a young writer saw the tell-tale signs of beetle kill. And then the infestation came for the pines at her own home.
Tracy Stone-Manning discusses how the federal agency sees conservation, the climate crisis and the Indigenous history of public lands.
5 years after its discovery, the amphibian is now protected from a geothermal development.
Clues from 1,000-year-old shells could reveal the parasite’s past —and portend the future.
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Jo the deer offered researchers a look into migrations and how long it takes deer to visit a forest after a fire.
When human data doesn’t go back far enough, researchers turn to natural archives.
Whales are eating catches right off the hook instead of foraging naturally, and some fishing crews react violently.
Climate change has created dangerously low oxygen levels in the ocean, causing problems for creatures and the communities that rely on them.
From petri dish to prairie with North America’s most endangered species.
New legislation to extend a controversial practice is ruffling feathers in Wyoming.
Jackalopes have migrated from Wyoming across the nation, but what’s really known about the mythical creature?
To eliminate invasive fish species, scientists have created a ‘Trojan’ brook trout that’s intended to help native fish in the West.
Once nonexistent in northwest Alaska, beavers are both benefiting from and changing a warming tundra.
Most importantly: The recent relisting doesn’t apply to the Rocky Mountains.
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