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Special Report: New World Screwworm

Recently, reports indicated that New World screwworm was once again dangerously near Texas (located in September 2025 only 70 miles from Laredo, Texas). To delay re-entry, the U.S. has restricted livestock imports from areas affected by the outbreak.

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Videos

They Put Beavers On Dead Land With No Trees — What Happened Next Is Unreal

Picture this: beavers on dead land, a place so barren that it seemed beyond hope—no trees, no flowing water, just cracked soil and silence. Yet, in a bold move, scientists and environmentalists tried something almost unbelievable: they placed hundreds of beavers on dead land, hoping that nature’s own engineers could turn desolation into life. At first glance, the idea sounded like madness, but what unfolded is now studied worldwide as a turning point in how nature-based solutions can restore ecosystems.

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"Conserving" Wild Bison?

The conflict between private landowners and the bison and elk living in Yellowstone National Park exists in large part  because the Yellowstone herds are infected with brucellosis. Brucellosis is a highly contagious bacterial disease that causes spontaneous abortions in cattle and related species. This epidemic disease has been virtually eliminated except in the national parks, which are now North America’s brucellosis reservoir.

The feds know how to address this problem, but they can’t take any action because of the real threat of lawsuits. Using the federal court system and federal statutes, pressure groups tie federal agencies like National Park Service and National Forest Service in knots with relative ease.

The resulting straight jacket of litigation-induced inaction has given us fire-prone, money-losing federal forests, and, federal land wildlife programs that often make no sense such as the hands-off approach to brucellosis control in the name of preserving “wildness.”

Decades of experience with wildlife and forestry management show that state agencies generally produce better results than federal agencies. Because state agencies are not handicapped by these punitive legal constraints, they are more responsive to local citizens who are affected by their decisions. And because states will go at eliminating brucellosis in wild bison and elk in different ways—and will have private landowners’ help—there is built-in experimentation, which results in widespread adoption of innovations that have worked elsewhere.

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