bobcats Wildlife Killing Contests: The Hidden World of Killing Animals for Prizes A documentary trailer takes viewers inside the little-known world of wildlife killing contests, where coyotes, bobcats and other animals are killed in competitions for prizes.
Fisheries Can We Raise Salmon Without Harming the Ocean? Most farmed salmon are raised in ocean pens that can spread pollution, disease and parasites into surrounding waters. A new generation of land-based farms offers a radically different approach.
Desert Grasslands Prairie Grass vs. Cropland: What Happens Beneath the Soil Tells the Story A remarkable side-by-side look beneath prairie grass and agricultural cropland reveals just how much of a healthy grassland ecosystem exists where we can't see it.
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity — 9/15/2026 A 37,000-year-old challenge to North American history, plants that may be communicating under stress, and an ancient species holding clues to Earth’s past.
Mammoths Human Occupation of the North American Colorado Plateau ∼37,000 Years Ago A controversial new study argues that humans may have occupied North America nearly 37,000 years ago—more than twice as early as the traditional timeline.
Articles Sounds Emitted by Plants Under Stress Are Airborne and Informative Scientists have discovered that stressed plants emit ultrasonic sounds that reveal when they're thirsty or injured. The findings could transform agriculture by enabling farmers to detect crop stress earlier while deepening our understanding of how plants interact with the world around them.
Forestries Peculiar Plant Could Help Us Reconstruct Ancient Earth’s Climate Ancient horsetail plants are helping scientists unlock Earth's distant climate history. Their extraordinary ability to concentrate water isotopes offers a new window into prehistoric humidity, water cycles, and ecosystems dating back hundreds of millions of years.
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 9/8/2026 Invasive species overwhelm islands. Water law locks scarce resources into old patterns. And forests deprived of fire begin losing the very biodiversity we thought we were protecting.
Biodiversity The Biodiversity Crisis It’s not just trees and animals that suffer when flames vanish. Eighty percent of a forest’s diversity is in its understory.
Colorado River 40 Million Americans Are Losing Their Water Supply to—Hay We can’t control the amount of precipitation that falls within the Colorado River watershed, but we can control how we use the water that’s available.
Invasive Species ‘Crabs Everywhere’: Off Canada’s Pacific Coast, Indigenous Haida Fight a Host of Invasive Species Haida Gwaii's extraordinary biodiversity is under siege. Indigenous leaders and conservationists are racing to restore ecological balance before these unique island ecosystems are changed forever.
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 8/25/2026 From tiny wasps protecting Texas forests to elk and grizzlies moving across millions of acres of wilderness, this week's Restoring Biodiversity explores conservation at every scale.
Invasive Species Emerald Ash Borers Are Decimating Texas Trees. Wasps Might Help Defeat Them. The emerald ash borer is steadily expanding across Texas, placing millions of native ash trees at risk. Scientists are testing an unexpected ally—tiny parasitoid wasps—to help control the invasive beetle.
Snake River Plain Wyoming's Snake River Can't Quench Idaho's Thirst No matter how much snow or rain falls each year, demand exceeds supply.
Conservation Pitchstone Waters, by Shawn Vickers Shawn Vickers does mapping and wildlife planning for many ranches and public lands in North America, East Africa and the British Isles. He filmed, edited and wrote the music for this little video.
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 8/25/2026 Elk in Texas raise a basic question about how law shapes conservation. Trail cameras in Idaho show what connected habitat looks like when wildlife can move freely. Cattle numbers reveal how economics and stewardship remain inseparable. And more...
Wild Horse Fire Brigade The Fires of Corruption Is America fighting wildfires instead of preventing them? This opinion piece argues that decades of suppression-focused budgets, prescribed burning, and wild horse removals have contributed to worsening wildfire conditions, and calls for a new approach
Resources Idaho Trail Camera Photos Reveal the Wildlife of 15 Million Acres of Wilderness Trail cameras at Pitchstone Waters Ranch offer a glimpse into the remarkable wildlife that calls Idaho's backcountry home. Bordering nearly 15 million acres of protected wilderness, the ranch provides habitat for mule deer, whitetail deer, elk, moose, black bears—and even grizzlies and wolves.
Cattle Cattle Shortage Driving Beef Prices Higher Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the U.S. cattle shortage stems from previous federal policies but argues the trend is beginning to reverse. She credits the current administration with increasing cattle inventories for the first time since 2018
Elk Removals Houston-Davis Proposal – Free-Ranging Elk Reclassification Effort The Houston-Davis Proposal seeks a targeted amendment to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Code that would classify free-ranging elk as a game animal while fully preserving the current regulatory status of high-fence commercial elk operations.
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 8/18/2026 This week we examine the ecological role of wild horses and native herbivores in managing wildfire fuels, explores why prevention must become a greater priority than suppression, and highlights fascinating stories on bees, bears, and the natural world.
Wild Horse Fire Brigade Initial Attack Failure: The East Evans Creek Fire and a Familiar Pattern With wildfire, the conversation is shifting from suppression to prevention. This opinion piece argues that reducing fine fuels before ignition—rather than relying solely on firefighting after the fact—may be one of the most important challenges facing land managers in the American West.
Wild Horse Fire Brigade Exigent Public Health Crisis from Wildfire Smoke — Immediate, Cost-Negative Remedy via Targeted Relocation of Excess Wild Horses under Existing Federal Authorities A new executive briefing argues that toxic wildfire smoke has become a national public health emergency and proposes an unconventional solution: using excess federally managed wild horses to reduce wildfire fuels in remote forests.
Wild Horse Fire Brigade When Native Grazers Disappear, The Land Burns: How the Collapse of Deer and Wild Horses Turned Small Fires into Megafires — and Why Livestock Alone Cannot Fix It Siskiyou County's wildfire crisis raises a fundamental question: what happens when a landscape loses the large herbivores that once helped shape it?
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 8/11/2026 Crops grown beneath elevated solar arrays. US Tribes get bison. How extreme heat is costing us sleep. And more....
