When settlers first made their way to America’s eastern shore, lobster was so bountiful it would wash onto beaches, providing an easy source of sustenance.
The advance of technology over the last several decades has made capturing images of wildlife, even in the most remote places, as simple as strapping
President Theodore Roosevelt’s designation of Florida’s Pelican Island as the first National Wildlife Refuge in 1903 placed a high value on our nation’s wetlands and
Imagine a different interpretation of Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Taken — a less romantic, more clear-cut version. The subject, instead of a
In the lingering battle over wild horse management in the West, horse numbers are advancing far faster than stakeholders’ ability to regulate them. With approximately
Originally published on Cool Green Science, the conservation science blog of The Nature Conservancy. On a fine, gusty June morning I hooked the striped bass
Now a young adult, Tania Romero says the thing that stands out most in her mind about growing up in South Central Los Angeles isn’t
For all the talk of invasive plants, it seems little explanation is given for how and why they got their bad rap. While most people
Present only in a handful of streams in and surrounding Birmingham, Ala., the watercress darter thrives in the deep, slow-moving backwaters of springs overflowing with
Traveling up northern California’s Klamath River to spawn, chinook salmon make a pitstop in an important cold-water tributary, called Blue Creek, to prepare themselves for
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