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The niche that the cutthroat trout enjoyed in Lake Yellowstone was unique in North America. The introduction of the Lake Trout – actually a char – destroyed the greatest cutthroat fishery in the world.

The effort discussed in the article below targets the embryonic Lake Trout by ‘soiling’ and ‘smothering’ their spawning beds with bacteria, which are elevated by soybean decomposition.

This is a non-general, highly-targeted management technique which exemplifies the kinds of management that could be employed across our national parks and forests to deal with increasing wildfires, declining habitat, wildlife and fisheries.

Let’s hope it works.

According to the article above, bats are threatened by a severe epidemic.

Biologists are searching caves and abandoned mines in the West, hoping to spare many species of the winged creatures from the devastating fungus, white-nose syndrome.

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"Yellowstone National Park may be best known for Old Faithful geyser and other unique geothermal features, but it's also home to the largest concentration of mammals in the lower 48 states.

Learn about wolves, elk, grizzly bears, bison, and river otters that call Yellowstone home.

Our soils support 95 percent of all food production, and by 2060, our soils will be asked to give us as much food as we have consumed in the last 500 years. They filter our water.

They are one of our most cost-effective reservoirs for sequestering carbon. They are our foundation for biodiversity. And they are vibrantly alive, teeming with 10,000 pounds of biological life in every acre.

Yet in the last 150 years, we’ve lost half of the basic building block that makes soil productive. The societal and environmental costs of soil loss and degradation in the United States alone are now estimated to be as high as $85 billion every single year.

Like any relationship, our living soil needs our tenderness. It’s time we changed everything we thought we knew about soil.

Let’s make this the century of living soil.

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