Heading South
Every autumn and winter, in a dramatic act of coordination and navigation, dozens of species across North America migrate vast distances for food, warmth or breeding. Monarch butterflies descend upon …
5 Ways You Can Help Eastern Monarchs
The once-common monarch butterfly has suffered steep population declines across North America in the last few decades. Both the eastern and western populations of these migratory butterflies are in real …
Salmon migration: Showing the way toward a healthy ecology
Salmon migration is a Homerian journey and an iconic wildlife event. It prompts us to think about the extraordinary energy that drives this epic movement for many animals across all …
Help Wildlife Move in a Changing World
Wildlife like the black bear move both daily and seasonally to survive. However, the habitats animals rely on continue to be fragmented by housing, roads, fences, energy facilities, and other …
Five Migrating Birds That May Stop in Your Yard
Right now, more than a hundred and fifty species of birds are on their way northward from tropical wintering grounds to take advantage of emerging insects, budding plants and an …
Last Day to Tell the Environmental Protection Agency to Keep…
The Clean Power Plan was meant to be the first step along a path that would lead to substantial carbon emission reductions. The Plan would have been the first ever …
Show Monarch Butterflies Some Love this Valentine’s Day
Will you be the monarch butterfly’s Valentine? If you will, we promise every heart will have a reason to flutter with joy. What could be better than helping rescue this …
Wildlife Know No Boundaries
Imagine an open landscape of sagebrush, grassland and windswept rocky outcrops as far as the eye can see. There, mule deer and pronghorn feed on native plants to grow fast …
Collaborating to Save the Monarch Migration
The migration of monarch butterflies is one of the natural world’s most epic journeys. The eastern population of monarchs flies up to 3,000 miles from their summer homes in America’s …
Wild Times at the Jersey Shore: Cape May National Wildlife Refuge
Maybe forest isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Jersey Shore. But this was just one of the sights I encountered on the Delaware …
