In October the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied protection for this species under the Endangered Species Act. Many conservation organizations including Earthjustice and Conservation Northwest have been working for over 20 years to get this species listed. With the continued reduction in snowpack, these organizations are concerned that without additional protections the U.S. Forest […]
Feisty and elusive, less than 300 wolverines live in small isolated pockets of Idaho, Montana, Washington, Wyoming and NE Oregon.
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Mountain lions are one of the most elusive animals in North America. Chances are if you spend time in the wilds you have rousted a cougar out of its bedding area without even knowing it. But some of these big cats get habituated to the human world, and losing their life because of it. Kalispel tribal biologist
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By Travis Laurence Naught Northeastern Yellowstone National Park is unbelievably wild. A dear friend of mine has taken a group of university students there for a week every summer since 2005. They watch wolves and write. Teeming herds of large mammals, expansive vistas, and the surging power of nature aid these practicing authors. Most writers don’t get a week like this—especially writers like
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The movement of wildlife is crucial to their survival. Salmon travel from the ocean to the river to spawn, field mice scurry along hedgerows to avoid predation, and caribou traverse thousands of miles to search for wintering grounds. Wildlife corridors are the routes, relatively unhindered by human activity, that wild animals travel to meet many of their primary needs: food, shelter, and reproduction. Nature has a way of spreading animals across the
If animals become too crowded, they can more easily spread viral and bacterial diseases. This can become exasperated when humans artificially crowd animals, particularly bringing a large variety of different species together, like in the wildlife farms and wet markets where the COVID-19 outbreak started. In these situations, diseases can spread rapidly, evolve, and jump from one species to the
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Many people have a Life List of all the birds they have seen. Others keep field journals denoting all the wildlife and plant species they see during a trip. And still other just find a comfortable place to sit and sketch nature, adding annotations about the species or the weather. Bringing along a few items
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The Spokane region is near a major flyway for many waterfowl species flying from their winter grounds to summer breeding areas. One of the best birds to start with is the American White Pelican. Due to their size they are hard to miss and easy to observe if you know where to look.
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Unlike some species of wildlife that must hibernate to survive, we can get outside, eat good food with friends, and stay active.
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