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Welcome to National Wildlife Week!
The start of spring means it’s also time to celebrate National Wildlife Week: a 75-year-old tradition! At this time each year National Wildlife Federation celebrates wildlife and suggests actions we all can take to help safeguard wildlife and their habitat. National… Read more >
Take Action for Wildlife and Plant a Tree!
Spring is the perfect time to get outside and help local wildlife. This year, National Wildlife Federation is celebrating the 75th Anniversary of National Wildlife Week by calling all students — pre-school through college — to make a difference for wildlife… Read more >
Twelve Tree-Mendous Wildlife Facts for National Wildlife Week
Next Monday we’ll join children across the country in a celebration of trees during National Wildlife Week. This year, we’re teaming up with kids and hope to plant 75,000 trees in honor of National Wildlife Week’s 75th anniversary. Read about… Read more >
Nature: Driving Revitalization in the Motor City and Beyond
During the roaring 20’s, Detroit glittered as a global center of automobile manufacturing. With a population that soared from 285,000 in 1900 to 1.6 million by 1930, it was the fourth largest city in the United States. As more… Read more >
Montana’s Otter Creek Valley and Its Wildlife Need Your Help
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is accepting comments from the public on the proposed Otter Creek coal mine in southeastern Montana. Arch Coal, the second largest coal company in the nation, wants to strip mine the valley for… Read more >
Deer me, who knew I would miss hemlocks so much?
NWF recently released a report on how climate is already impacting wildlife, detailing everything from dropping numbers of moose in New England to bears not hibernating much (if at all) in the winter. And that’s not all – in the… Read more >
Inauguration Cherry Blossoms: A Harbinger of Climate Impacts to Come
Making my way across the grounds of the Washington Monument yesterday to witness Barack Obama’s second inauguration, I came across a disconcerting sight. Lulled by unseasonably warm temperatures and a false sense of spring, the pale pink petals of young… Read more >
Hands-On Habitat Volunteers – A Key to the Future of the Environmental Movement
The near absence of any discussion of the environment in the presidential debates has led me to think about the state of the U.S. environmental movement. In one sense, conservationists in the U.S. should be proud of all that we… Read more >
Burning Concern: Drought-Driven Wildfires Generating Pollution
This summer, the foothills and mountain peaks that form Colorado’s Front Range have been nearly invisible at times because of thick haze from wildfires in the state and across the region. The view to the west from Boulder and the… Read more >
Hot and Hazy: Central Washington Wildfires Muddle the Puget Sound Skyline
Smoke from Central Washington wildfires is dimming the horizon throughout Washington today, obscuring the crispness that is so common on a sunny summer day in Seattle. It also raises air quality concerns throughout the region and provides a clear example of… Read more >
