How a controversial poison saved Utah Lake

Ninety-five-thousand-acre Utah Lake is a major water source for the Great Salt Lake. If it dries up or sickens, so…
MoreBobcats need protection, not killing for their pelts

Unlike the rest of modern wildlife management, killing bobcats is unregulated, driven not by science but by fur prices. We’re…
Bobcat caught in a trap, photo courtesy of Animal Wellness Action
MoreAre beavers always the answer? Not really

Beavers, through their assiduous dam building, can recharge groundwater and provide habitat for fish and wildlife. In the Pacific Northwest,…
MoreKilling fish to save frogs

By Ted Williams Shortly after World War II, California fish managers had a brainstorm: They loaded juvenile trout into airplanes…
Yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa), courtesy USGS
MoreWild horses need to stop ruling the range

They are icons of America’s past, symbols of our pioneering spirit. Eyes flashing, nostrils flaring, tails obscured by a cloud…
Donald Giannatti via Unsplash, Wild horses Monument Valley, Utah
MoreThe “Keystone Pipeline” won’t make gas any cheaper

”A report that the Biden administration is weighing greater imports of Canadian oil is putting a renewed focus on the…
MoreWildlife Fauxtography

I’m disgusted with American journalism. It’s boring. I blame editors for assigning uninteresting stories, and people interviewed for being evasive….
MoreKilling 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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