Welcome to Yosemite, the new Pyrocene Park
The Pleistocene epoch that began 2.6 million years ago sent ice in waves through Yosemite. Glaciers gouged out great valleys…
Photo by Laurel Balyeat, Yosemite Park
MoreA close encounter with wolves and fear
This summer, three of us were hiking in Alaska’s western Brooks Range when we encountered a pack of eight wolves….
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MoreHard lessons from the border
Animals have been blocked from migration, their food chains disrupted. Now, exotic weeds, insects and diseases can use the lengthy scar as a nick point for invasion, ultimately disrupting far more than what human border-crossers can do. Photo by Greg Bulla on Unsplash
MoreHow to love the bear’s world
When a bear kills a person in the wild, that’s no reason to enact laws making it easier to kill bears. Rather respect that bears are wild creatures and be cautious when in their territor
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Killing wildlife to see who wins
Predators do kill game and livestock, but no game species in the United States is suppressed by predation, and overpopulated species like elk and deer lack the predators needed to maintain their health and that of native ecosystems.
MoreSometimes, poison is the only thing that works
The ashy storm-petrel, threatened by mice on the Farallon Islands.
Photograph courtesy of Ted Williams
MoreColorado Needs Wolves
“…we can efficiently and affordably undo our ancestors’ shortsighted decision to erase wolves from America’s wild place.”
Photograph by Robert Larsson, Courtesy of Unsplash
MoreWolves and lots of People Don’t Mix
“Wolf proponents see western Colorado as an empty wilderness, not acknowledging the combustion engine, or Interstate-70.”
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MoreClimbing Walls While Sitting in a Chair
Suddenly tears flowed. “Geez, you could say I squashed a bug.”
Photograph by Kuma Kum, Courtesy of Unsplash
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