New World Screwworm USDA Releases Nearly 400 Million Sterile Flies In Texas In Fight Against New World Screwworm Officials urge vigilance for livestock injuries amid outbreak
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 7/14/2026 A hydrothermal basin can rearrange itself overnight. Plants respond to their surroundings in ways that challenge our assumptions about intelligence and awareness. An invasive hog population can become a vehicle for an entirely different biological threat.
Yellowstone Ecosystem Another Hydrothermal Explosion Has Occurred at Yellowstone National Park A new hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone's Biscuit Basin created boiling pools, fresh vents, and dramatic changes to the landscape. The event is a powerful reminder that even America's most iconic national park remains a living, evolving system where nature—not humans—sets the timetable.
Biodiversity We May Be Surrounded by Trillions of Conscious Beings, Research Suggests—And They Aren’t Human We might need to reconsider our position in the consciousness hierarchy.
New World Screwworm Two of Texas’s Deadliest Pests Are Bound to Clash. Will Anybody Win? The flesh-eating New World screwworm has returned to Texas—and the state’s millions of fast-moving feral hogs could turn a dangerous livestock outbreak into a far larger crisis.
Pine Marten See Two Scottish Pine Martens Start a Food Fight This is a video about The European pine marten, also known as the pine marten or the European marten, a mustelid native to and widespread in most of Europe, Asia Minor, the Caucasus and parts of Iran, Iraq and Syria. The American marten (Martes americana), also known as the American
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 7/7/2026 The lesson this week is simple: conservation works best when it is grounded in biology, measured by outcomes, and humble enough to adapt.
Forestries Fig Trees May Benefit Climate By Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Stone - New Scientist Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ensuring that the carbon is kept out of the air for longer
Chronic Wasting Disease Chronic Wasting Disease Detected for First Time in Yellowstone National Park Chronic Wasting Disease has officially reached Yellowstone National Park. The first confirmed case in a mule deer underscores the growing challenge facing wildlife managers as a fatal disease continues to spread through deer, elk, and moose populations across the American West.
Bio-Diversity Goats Clearing Meadows and Forest at Pitchstone Waters #4 We use goats instead of herbicides to control weeds and stimulate grasses in sagebrush meadows
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 6/30/2026 Coffee waste becomes forest recovery. Goats become habitat managers. Ranchers become conservation practitioners. And more....
Wild Horse Fire Brigade Not Your Ordinary Horse Ranchers Michelle Gough and William E. Simpson II are two researchers who have chosen an unusually rugged life in the wilderness to study a free-roaming herd of heritage wild horses along the California-Oregon border.
Climate Describing Photosynthesis and Respiration Respiration is part of a biological carbon cycle, not necessarily the introduction of new carbon into the system.
Biodiversity Researchers Dump Tons of Coffee Waste Onto Degraded Land, 2 Years Later It’s Transformed Researchers have witnessed incredible results after dumping 30 truckloads of coffee pulp, a waste product of the coffee industry, onto an area of degraded former farmland in Costa Rica.
Animal Growth Goats Clearing Meadows and Forest at Pitchstone Waters #3 Third in a series: On the Fall River in Idaho, 5-miles from the southwest corner of Yellowstone Park, we use goats instead of herbicides to control weeds and stimulate grasses in sagebrush meadows. Third in a series. NOTE: this post was originally published to this site on October 21,
Wildlife & Hunting A Wolf Pack Challenged a Grizzly Over a Bison Carcass in Yellowstone. Then the ‘King’ Showed Up A wildlife photographer captured a rare standoff between a wolf pack and two grizzly bears fighting over a drowned bison in Yellowstone. Everything changed the moment the huge adult male — what one expert calls the “king of the carcass” — arrived on scene.
New World Screwworm Idaho Adds Requirements For Animal Entry In Response To U.S. New World Screwworm Cases The Idaho State Department of Agriculture instated additional state entry requirements for animals on Wednesday following detections of New World screwworm — a flesh eating parasite — in Texas and New Mexico
New World Screwworm Screwworm Cases Rise in Texas The number of confirmed New World screwworm cases in Texas has risen to four as officials work to stop the spread of the invasive pest that could decimate the U.S. cattle industry.
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 6/23/2026 Wildfires, wild horses, chronic wasting disease, and a potentially historic El Niño may seem unrelated. They aren't. This week's edition of Restoring Biodiversity explores how resilience, stewardship, and healthy ecosystems remain our strongest defense against growing environmental challenges.
Wild Horse Fire Brigade America Is Repeating Brazil’s Amazon Disaster — While Systematically Destroying the Only Animal That Could Prevent It This post argues that decades of livestock-focused land management and wildfire suppression have degraded public lands, while wild horses may offer a natural, low-cost solution for reducing fuels, restoring ecosystems, and improving resilience.
Wild Horse Fire Brigade Why Wild Horse Fire Brigade Stands Alone Among Wild Horse Nonprofits Wild Horse Fire Brigade is advancing a different vision for conservation—one centered on preserving free-roaming, naturally breeding wild horse herds.
Chronic Wasting Disease CWD Research, Insights Shared At Deer Associates Gathering Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is the “greatest threat” to whitetail deer, and it’s a threat that is here to stay.
Resources El Nino Is Here And Scientists Fear It’ll Be Big, Bad And Costly With Heat, Floods, Droughts, Fires A potentially historic El Niño is forming in the Pacific, and if the scientists are right, it will bring a familiar mix of floods, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, and agricultural disruption to different corners of the globe.
Newsletter Restoring Biodiversity - 6/16/2026 A flesh-eating parasite is moving north through Mexico, threatening livestock, wildlife, and rural economies. This week's edition examines the growing New World screwworm threat, the response unfolding in Texas, and why prevention remains the cornerstone of effective stewardship.
New World Screwworm Secretary Brooke Rollins Discusses Actions Taken to Combat the New World Screwworm This update from Secretary Rollins highlights an aggressive, science-driven effort to stop the northward advance of the New World screwworm before it can threaten American livestock, wildlife, and rural economies.
