A proposal made this month to increase critical habitat for the endangered Southwestern willow flycatcher represents a shift in philosophy at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which instead of merely trying to maintain populations of endangered species is now aiming to boost them.
An environmental group called on the Department of the Interior to cease fire on a plan to use volunteer sharpshooters to reduce elk herds in Rocky Mountain National Park, instead urging officials to release wolves into the park “as part of the long-term solution to the elk over-browsing problem.”
Distant mountains
Himalayas of Iapetus
The Cassini mission to Saturn has come within a thousand miles of the surface of the planet’s third largest…
Location, location, location
Wolf near Blacktail Pond, Yellowstone National
Park; Jim Peaco, National Park Service
A main indicator of hunting success…
Going, Going, Gone Glacier
Colorado scientists weren’t pulling their weight this week. We could only find one paper from local researchers. Fortunately it’s an interesting piece of work from Zackry Guido, Dylan Ward and Robert Anderson of CU-Boulder’s Department…
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