Bison Bison Return to Native American Lands, Revitalizing Sacred Rituals More than a century after a mass bison slaughter, the animals are restoring Great Plains ecosystems and reinvigorating Indigenous customs like the sun dance.
Bison US Tribes Get Bison as They Seek to Restore Bond With Animal Bison are returning to Native American lands across the Great Plains, helping restore both healthy grasslands and centuries-old cultural traditions.
"Invasion Biology" Holistic Management at Work Holistic management uses a long term planning process that assigns to environmental and social outcomes the same importance as profits.
Fighting Wildfires Canada’s Ability to Prevent Forest Fires Lags Behind the Need Canada’s capacity to prevent wildfires has been shrinking for decades because of budget cuts, a loss of some of the country’s forest service staff, and onerous rules for fire prevention, turning some of its forests into a tinderbox.
Bio-Diversity Yellowstone Elk Migration Trail: Amazing Camera Trap Highlights Elk, mule deer, coyotes, wolves, grizzly bear, and a porcupine all use the same trail high in the mountains of western Wyoming in this video by the Wyoming Migration Initiative
Biodiversity Animal Trails: Rediscovering Grand Teton Migrations Recent GPS tracking of migratory mule deer and other big game species revealed that animal trails radiate out in all directions from Jackson Hole to the far reaches of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
"Invasion Biology" Want to Fight the Feral Hog Problem in Texas? Start With $8k, a Helicopter and a Machine Gun. “Helicopter hog hunting in and of itself does not reduce the total feral hog population by a very large amount,” Britt said, “but it can manage a regional area.”
Feral Pigs How Wild Beast Invasion is Tearing Up America - and Killing More People Than Sharks: 'I'd Rather Get Eaten by an Alligator' An invasion of wild beasts is wreaking havoc across America – and shocking figures reveal they are killing more people than sharks.
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
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.
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.
water control Beyond Scarcity: Can We Restore Vitality in a Drying West The American West must move beyond a mindset of water scarcity and begin thinking in terms of restoring ecological vitality.
Bio-Diversity Goats Clearing Meadows and Forest at Pitchstone Waters #2 We use goats instead of herbicides to control weeds and stimulate grasses in sagebrush meadows.
Bio-Diversity Goats Clearing Meadows and Forest at Pitchstone Waters #1 We use goats instead of herbicides to control weeds and stimulate grasses in forests and meadows
Wildlife & Hunting Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Proposes Rule That Would Require Harvest Reporting - Impacting Mountain Lion Populations The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission will vote in May on a proposed rule that could significantly improve how we understand and manage mountain lion populations in Texas.
Wild Horse Fire Brigade Wild Horse Grift The song "Wild Horse Grift" is a powerful, truth-telling country-western style track that exposes the exploitation of America's wild horses by certain large "advocacy" nonprofits.
buying and selling ranches My Wild Land: The Place - Trailer The My Wild Land series, presented by Muley Fanatic Foundation was launched in response to the rapid residential growth of western states in recent years and subsequent loss of wildlife habitat.
Elk Why I Hunt: A New Mexico Elk Hunt Special thanks to RMEF Films partner Bass Pro Shops and the Express UU Bar Ranch in New Mexico. Thanks to their commitment to conservation, RMEF is able to tell this story
