Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 1/28/2025 Fascinating Bighorn sheep battles. Desert Bighorn and Chukar in Nevada. What does it mean to be fully alive? And more..
Bighorn The Battle of Bighorns The battles involve rams charging at each other and colliding their massive horns. These clashes can reach speeds of up to 40 miles per hour, generating forces that are significantly greater than what would cause injury to a human skull.
Bio-Diversity Desert Bighorn Sheep and Chukar in Nevada A wonderful Desert Bighorn Sheep video from Nevada’s Department of Wildlife. The gamebirds are Chukar (Alectoris chukar), a much-treasured partridge originally native to the foothills of the Himalayas. American stock originated in Afghanistan and Nepal. Chukar have naturalized across much of the West in areas where their native food
Restoring Biodiversity - 1/21/2025 Wild horses can help prevent forest fires. The effort to bring horned lizards back to Texas. Young fox kits play near Orvis headquarters. And more...
Texas wildlife The Effort to Bring Horned Lizards Back to Texas This once ubiquitous little animal is undoubtedly the victim of pesticides.
Bio-Diversity ORVIS Moment of Chill: Playing in the Yard Young fox kits play around their den, just off the walkway near Orvis headquarters in Sunderland, Vermont. NOTE: this post was originally published to this site in February, 2022.
Resources Wild Horses Can Help Prevent Forest Fires Horses don’t tear out the roots of plants while grazing, unlike cattle and sheep, says Simpson.
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 1/14/2025 Regenerative farming in the UK. Prairie strips now cover some 22,000 acres in the U.S. “We Are The Wild Horses” wins an award. And more….
Resources 'Prairie Strips' Bring Beauty to Farms With Big Environmental Benefits Farmers in Iowa have added “prairie strips” alongside rows of corn and soybeans to help halt serious environmental challenges inherent to farming.
Regenerative Ranching Generation Regeneration: ‘A New Era of Farming Talent’ Last year, a third more tenancies were awarded to new entrants than 10 years ago. Many are breaking the rules, and promising to restore not just soil health, but the value of the industry
Wild Horse Fire Brigade Award for Volunteer Team’s Wild Horse Music Video A music video created by a collective of wild horse advocates won its category at the Equus Film and Arts Festival.
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 1/7/2024 Rare Canada Lynx sighted in Vermont. The useful role of large grazers in desert ecology. Texas game wardens seize 18 illegally spearfished black bass. And more
Our Philosophy Bees Are Buzzing Honeybees have made a big comeback since the colony collapse crisis. Now these tiny creatures are the fastest-growing type of livestock in the country
Resources Rare Creature Seen for First Time Since 2018, Vermont Officials Say. ‘That’s No Bobcat’ A rare big cat, seen for the first time in six years, is causing excitement in a Vermont county.
"Invasion Biology" Restoring Sonoran Desert Grasslands with Cattle The Cuenca Los Ojos Foundation works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the US/Mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 12/31/2024 Plants need animals as much as animals need plants. How we used P.A. Yeomans’ Keyline concepts to improve water function in West Texas. And more..
Our Philosophy Against the Herd The film showcases Agee Smith's family ranch, Cottonwood Ranch in northeastern Nevada, as a prime example of a family operation who were granted an experimental permit and have used cattle as a tool to restore the landscape.
Yeomans Keyline Keyline 101: Desert Grassland Restoration This video was filmed in the Sierra Diablo Mountains, Hudspeth County, far-West Texas, for presentation at the Quivira Coalition Conference in Albuquerque, November 11, 2015.
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 12/24/2024 Villagers resist a multi-site solar farm in the UK. Native tribes protest bison cull in Yellowstone. A bobcat chases a bear. And more...
News Northamptonshire Villagers Argue Against Solar Farms on Fields Villagers living near a planned multi-site solar farm have said the facility should be built on warehouse roofs instead of farmers' fields.
Bears Cougar vs. Bear A bobcat would not typically engage with a bear unless absolutely necessary for survival or defense of its young. But it happens….
Resources Native Tribes Protest Plan to Cull Wild Bison in Yellowstone The National Park Service says the plan is essential because there are more bison in the park than there is space to accommodate them
"Invasion Biology" Wildlife in the High-Desert Mountains of Far-West Texas Desert Mountain Wildlife #3 – part of a series on wildlife pictures
Restoring Biodiversity - 12/17/2024 Colorado release five wolves via reintroduction program. A common sense solution for the wild horse 'problem.' Lassen Volcanic National Park authorities confirm the presence of gray wolves. And more...
wolf management plan Colorado Releases 5 Wolves in Reintroduction Program Approved by Voters The release culminates a process three years in the making when in 2020 voters narrowly approved reintroducing wolves by the end of 2023 west of the Continental Divide.
