Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
This weekend as my little goblin and I make our way out into the night in search of treats, there may be more witches and ghosts than bats for us to keep an eye out for. That's because in three...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
A news article in today's issue of Science magazine discusses the consequences of the northern Rockies wolf hunts on years of scientific research on some of the most well-studied wolves in North America - those of Yellowstone National Park. Since...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
For years, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has disregarded empirically based calculations of population size that call for thousands of wolves to maintain a viable population. Instead, they preferred to point to anecdotal "case histories" of small, isolated populations...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I was going to write an entry introducing you to the False Killer Whale since I'm guessing you may not have heard of it, but Andrew has already done a fine job of that. Since the distribution of the entire...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Those of you who have been following the situation with wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains know that NRDC, along with a coalition of groups, has sued the US Fish and Wildlife Service over their flawed plan to remove endangered...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday's New York Times ran a story titled, "Some See Beetle Attacks on Western Forests as a Natural Event" - a title that confuses if not completely misrepresents the beetle attack that is devastating our western forests. In isolation, the...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I've written before about the saga surrounding the Preble's meadow jumping mouse - from political interference to mixed up lab samples - this little mouse with giant feet and a long tail has had a rough ride. And the final...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I recently read an article that gave advice to parents on keeping their kids connected to nature in a (very) urban setting. One of the recommendations was to bring "natural elements" into your living space like sticks and leaves. We...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Last month, as the Department of the Interior finalized the on-again delisting of wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains, I was out of the office experiencing the delirium of sleep deprivation that comes with the birth of a new child. ...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Today the Secretary of the Interior affirmed a Bush administration push to delist wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains. This decision is obviously a great disappointment to those of us who have worked so hard to make sure that wolves...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday I had the honor of attending the Department of Interior's 160th anniversary celebration where President Obama gave an inspiring speech about the value of our public lands and the wildlife that inhabits them. Importantly, he said that for too...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday we pointed out that NRDC provided a detailed review of scientific arguments for the need for thousands of wolves in the rocky mountain region - that the Fish and Wildlife Service ignored. What they also ignored were comments that...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
When a federal judge returned endangered species protections to wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains last year, one of the deciding issues was the fact that the wolves in the three sub-populations of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana had not achieved...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
There is a rule in the children's game that when Mr. Wolf calls out "Midnight!" all the players run back to their starting point. Only this midnight rule is no game. With their eyes on the ticking clock, the Fish...
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday I told the story of whitebark pine as the king of its ecosystem - making reference to the enormous role it plays in its community and also to the following photograph which I described as a sylvan Shakespearean character,...
