Patrick Tedder’s Archive

Test your knowledge of the environmental impact of your favorite foods and products

The 2020 World Consumer Rights Day celebrates the Sustainable Consumer! Shopping with sustainability and wildlife in mind sends a signal that destructive products simply won’t do anymore. Click below and … Read more

New Clean Water Funding for Delaware

Delaware is uniquely poised to act as a sink for the Delaware River Watershed, a source for water in the Chesapeake Bay, and the Inland Bays Watershed. The main stem … Read more

Save What You Love: Filmmaker Mark Titus Focuses His Lens on Endangered Wild Salmon Runs

“Once we were so many we couldn’t be counted.” This takeaway message in the 2014 documentary feature, The Breach, is a poignant reminder when we consider collapsing salmon runs in … Read more

A Scary Ingredient in your Halloween Candy is Destroying Rainforests and Harming Wildlife

This Halloween, we should consider swapping the ordinary images of graveyards, ghosts and witches with that of burnt forests, skeletal trees and dying wildlife – because the scariest part of … Read more

NWF Protecting Bighorn Sheep in the High Divide

What is Wildlife Conflict Resolution? Where conflicts between livestock and wildlife are prolonged and intractable, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) believes that public land grazing retirements can provide an equitable … Read more

Arkansas Wildlife Federation and National Wildlife Federation Host Steel Shot Trap Station for Outdoor Writers Association of America Conference

“Pull!” The orange disc arcs outward, the barrel swings, and the clay breaks. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission hosted the Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) at the Dr. … Read more

Five Ways To Tackle The Gulf Of Mexico’s Dead Zone

This year, the Mississippi River flooded for more than 6 months, unprecedented in both length of time and volume of water. Researchers recently announced that this year the excess fertilizer … Read more

The Importance of Birds – And How A Video Game Can Help Them

A young birder calls for awareness and action Humans have been fascinated by birds for as long as they have existed. Inspiring countless cultures around the world and across time, … Read more

Godzilla: Monster or Metaphor?

As folks look to beat the summer heat and flock to their local theater to see the latest creature destruction flick “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” few may know the … Read more