Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Last year I had a chance to wander into the Wind River region of Wyoming with journalists, academics, and NRDC experts interested in getting to the bottom of the climate catastrophe that is unfolding in the region's whitebark pine...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I really enjoy reading Rocky Barker's columns and blog at the Idaho Statesman. I don't always agree with what he says, but he is a thoughtful and genuine voice that helps me cut through the shouting on both sides of...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Like millions of Americans, I spent a chunk of my holiday weekend in front of a barbecue grill. And I might have unintentionally opened myself up to a growing international crime spree in the process... Swine flu has been...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
We got word that state and federal wildlife officials were unnecessarily hazing America's last genetically wild buffalo off of a peninsula west of Yellowstone National Park in Montana yesterday. I started pulling together a blog posting and about halfway...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Earth Day gets all the pub, but I've always been kinda partial to Arbor Day. I mean, really, how often do you even think about trees? This Arbor Day, features a couple of interesting tree stories: In the journal...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Sometimes the little critters we overlook are also some of the most amazing... This week NRDC renews a long-standing fight over a somewhat blah-looking little fish called the tidewater goby. Despite its drab appearance, the quirky swimmer exemplifies why the...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
It takes some serious guts for a public figure to challenge the anti-wolf lobby in Wyoming. And with the imminent release of the Department of Interior's new wolf rules that remove endangered species protections from the packs in Montana and...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
One of America's most iconic engineering marvels is being threatened by an advancing army. This is not a military threat---though it is foreign. Quagga and zebra mussels, the twin scourges of the Great Lakes are marching west...well, actually hitchhiking. ...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
With news that wildlife officials will likely make changes in the way Yellowstone National Park's bison herds are managed, there has been an interesting shift to the tone of the debate recently. Sure, it is still chock-full of emotional bombast...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I am still recovering from yesterday, which felt a bit like the inevitable scene at the end of every Godfather movie when everyone gets gunned down at once. The big news came down with the announcement of the Department of...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
NRDC submitted a petition to add the whitebark pine to the federal Endangered Species list today. I know, I know…an endangered tree... Boring. Or a horror story. Not so in either case. As to the idea that a tree...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Did you know that a hefty chunk of your tax dollars go to an efficient squad of killers known to employ an array of heavy armaments and poisons to liquidate millions of targets every year? No, it’s not the...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
The Green Group transition document has a number of concrete and thoughtful suggestions for US Fish & Wildlife Services (FWS) in the new administration. Frankly, I’d be happy with a simple change of tone… We’ve been focused on the...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
We expected the Bush administration's 11th hour Endangered Species Act rule changes to hit the federal register this morning. They did not. But we did get some classic stuff from the White House when Press Secretary Dana Perino had this odd exchange...
Posted by Josh Mogerman in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
"Creatures of the night... Shut up!" This Halloween, that most memorable comedic Dracula line might just hold true for two of the holiday's most iconic symbols: Bats The LA Times, Boston Globe, Scientific American, and Reuters all covered a...
