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Articles

Leave It to Beavers? Not if You’re a Wolf

As discussed below, wolves improve beavers’ positive effects on habitat, and, wolves help beaver to thrive.

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Attacking Aoudad on Behalf of Bighorn

The Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) say aoudad harm desert mule deer, pronghorn and desert bighorn, and habitat, because they (1) eat plants, (2) drink water and (3) do well. In fact:

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Videos

Watch a Beautiful New Film on Grand Teton Migrations

Animal Trails: Rediscovering Grand Teton Migrations produced in collaboration with Grand Teton National Park, documents more than a decade of migration research. It reveals how the mule deer and pronghorn that summer in Jackson Hole actually depend on habitats up to 190 miles away from the park boundaries.

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Fuel, Fire, and Wild Horses

Wildfire continues to devastate the American West at increasing rates.

When this video was posted originally in 2021, wildfires are burning across more than 768,000-acres of land in twelve Western states, and 500,000-acres in Canada. Ten fires were in Idaho, which was under a smoke cloud for days.

According to some, the plan that could combat the danger of forest fire lies in the complicated history and present role of the wild horse. Naturalist rancher William E. Simpson II, Michael Perez, and Pulitzer Prize winning author David Philipps explore the interconnected issues of wildfire and wild horses in the American West.

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