Wildlife Fauxtography
I’m disgusted with American journalism. It’s boring. I blame editors for assigning uninteresting stories, and people interviewed for being evasive….
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Photo credit Doug Smith, National Park Service
MoreGuess who has outsized clout on public lands?
This may be a surprising story. It begins with a working group trying to save the last native bighorn sheep…
Image by Pete Nuij, courtesy of Unsplash
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“Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roamWhere the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heard a discouraging…
Ranch manager Zach Thode, works beside professors and students to help wildlife
MorePlease don’t pet the wildlife
“I can’t believe that person is getting that close.” Just off the road stands a bull elk — a 700-pound…
MoreWelcome 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….
Image by Milo Weiler, via Unsplash
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
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