Do National Park Crowds Breed Advocates—or Build Annoyance?
A trip to Denali National Park is a journey into wild America at its best. This six-million-acre landscape is bisected by only one, 92-mile ribbon of road. Travel along it, and you’ll see...
View ArticleShould We Vaccinate Wild Animals for Canine Distemper Virus?
The world’s tigers face considerable threats today: poaching, habitat loss, depletion of their prey and retaliatory kills by humans when the big cats take livestock. But now, a new threat has surfaced:...
View ArticleEarth Day 2015: the Good, the Bad and the Silenced
Wednesday, April 22, is Earth Day 2015, the 45th celebration of what started out as a true grassroots movement—the environmental likes of which we haven’t seen since. Last year, on Earth Day 2014, I...
View ArticleNaming One That’s Wild: A Conservation Aid?
“On a wild, remote island in Lake Superior called Isle Royale, gray wolves have lived and thrived for more than 60 years. In the forests on this island—which encompasses the majority of Michigan’s Isle...
View Article8 Incredible Wolf Facts Everyone Should Know
Known as highly intelligent pack animals, wolves have been widely misunderstood through the millennia as wild and deadly beasts. They are the creatures of myth and folklore, often to their detriment....
View ArticleWolves Return to California, but for How Long?
After almost a century, wolves have come home to California. On August 20, 2015, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced that it had photographic evidence from a trail camera...
View ArticleSix Adventures that Will Make You Love Winter
According to Climate Central, an independent organization of scientists and journalists that researches and reports the facts about our changing climate, last year was the hottest in the past 135. Now,...
View ArticleVideo: 20 Years after the Return of the Wolf
This year, 2015, marks the 20th anniversary of the wolf’s return to Yellowstone National Park. On January 12, 1995, eight gray wolves from Alberta, Canada, were reintroduced into the park and became...
View ArticleAs Earth’s Superpredators, Can We Change How We Use Wildlife?
Would you mind living next door to a top predator? It’s a question I’ve asked you before. It seems that when it comes to bears, lions or wolves, we humans, as a whole, can’t get rid of our four-footed,...
View ArticleWildlife Roundup – Top 5 North American Animals You Can Still See in the Wild
1. Grandpa what big horns you have I’ll never forget the first time I came across a giant moose – I was maybe 10 or 11, canoeing with my dad in the shallows of Moosewood Lake in Maine (does the name...
View ArticleDeclining Wildebeests: Why Conserve Nonthreatened Species?
The classical elemental forces of nature are air, earth, fire and water. But there are other great environmental powers that have a beating heart, such as when millions of wild animals come together as...
View ArticleDogs May Be Our Best Conservation Aids
Radio collars, GPS tracking devices and remote-controlled drones—when it comes to monitoring wildlife, it’s easy to get caught up in high-tech devices. It turns out, however, that our best tool for...
View ArticleVideo: Conservation Canines in Action
Last week, you read about shelter dogs that are finding employment—and a new lease on life—as conservation officers in the University of Washington’s Conservation Canines (CK9) program. In the video...
View ArticleNat Hab Supports Wolf Conservation Research in Yellowstone
The excitement of hoping to see—or even photograph—one of the more than 100 wolves that now make the park their home is an incredible part of any trip to Yellowstone. Doing our part to ensure that...
View ArticleYellowstone’s Premier Wolf Guide
Growing up just outside New York City in Montclair, New Jersey, Paul Brown wasn’t a likely candidate to build a career around the wolves of Yellowstone. He didn’t even lay eyes on the American West...
View ArticleThe Sounds of Yellowstone
I should start out by saying that I hate the cold and do everything in my power to avoid it. My Midwest roots, however, have taught me one thing: layer up! So, with that in mind, I headed out the door...
View ArticleForever Killing Wolves
This is the dirty fact I’ve come to recognize: we humans won’t allow wolves to live on our planet. We won’t stop until the last one of them is gone. If you don’t believe me, look at what’s happening in...
View ArticleAttitudes Toward Wildlife: the Right Kind of Caring?
American attitudes toward wild animals are growing more positive, according to a new study published just last month in the international journal Biological Conservation. Between 1978 and 2014, our...
View ArticleVideo: Emotional Overload on Encountering a Coastal Wolf
Almost every single one of you has had that “nature moment”; the instant when an animal encounter or a sighting of a natural landscape or phenomenon takes your breath away. The power of those brief...
View ArticleAfter 100 Years, a New Vision for the National Park Service
Managing wildness. Seems like an oxymoron to me. After all, if it is managed, can it still be wild? Yet that is the almost impossible task we have asked the U.S. National Park Service to do for 100...
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