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First Study to Track a Wild Bird Known to Have Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

First Study to Track a Wild Bird Known to Have Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

There is a current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in numerous wild and commercial bird species across North America. Highly pathogenic avian influenza is...

New Data, Funding To Fight Great Lakes Algal Blooms

New Data, Funding To Fight Great Lakes Algal Blooms

MONROE, Michigan – Oct. 27, 2022 – A proposed $30 million investment in wetlands conservation aims to reduce Great Lakes algal blooms in southeast Michigan, which a newly...

Groups Urge DOE to Finally Act on Nearly Ten Year Old Petition Calling for Review of Fracked Gas Export Policy

Groups Urge DOE to Finally Act on Nearly Ten Year Old Petition Calling for Review of Fracked Gas Export Policy

WASHINGTON, DC– The Sierra Club, with partners, sent a letter today urging the Department of Energy (DOE) to take long overdue action in response to a petition for rulemaking...

How a rare butterfly returned

How a rare butterfly returned

From the top of Pigeon Butte in western Oregon’s William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, the full width of the Willamette Valley fits into a gaze. Slung between the Coast...

235 Horse Manure as Fertilizer? Wildfire Landscaping Tips

235 Horse Manure as Fertilizer? Wildfire Landscaping Tips

If you have horses, or access to horse manure, you might want to use that manure to fertilize your plants. What are the precautions you need to take? America’s Favorite Retired...

Yes, it’s generally safe for wildlife to eat discarded pumpkins

Yes, it’s generally safe for wildlife to eat discarded pumpkins

Composting is the best way to discard your pumpkins, but they’re safe for animals to eat as long as they aren’t rotting or have chemicals on them. October is peak...

To Protect Wild Rice, Tribes and Universities Have Formed an Unlikely Collaboration

To Protect Wild Rice, Tribes and Universities Have Formed an Unlikely Collaboration

Counting by square feet, the town of Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin is more than one-third water. Three huge lakes—Long Interlaken Lake, Pokegama Lake, and Flambeau Lake—flank the...

UF scientist to investigate cost-effective methods to combat nematode pests, diseases in turfgrass - News

UF scientist to investigate cost-effective methods to combat nematode pests, diseases in turfgrass - News

Lawns, playing fields, golf courses, parks and many other outdoor areas are part of the multi-billion-dollar turfgrass industry. That industry provides aesthetic, environmental...

Starting to farm with no excuses

Starting to farm with no excuses

For as long as he can remember, Justin Zahradka of Lawton, North Dakota, has wanted to farm and raise cattle. He grew up on a small farm, helping his parents care for a herd of...

Parks for Everyone - parkscalifornia.org

Parks for Everyone - parkscalifornia.org

Parks For Everyone P-CREW (Plumas Conservation Restoration, Education in Watersheds) Santa Barbara Police Activities League Big City Mountaineers, Sacramento, CA Ventana...

How we can restore an energy future that keeps the lights on

How we can restore an energy future that keeps the lights on

Reliable and affordable energy should be a fact of life in our country. And for most of America, it is. But under California ’s Green New Deal experiment, reliable power has...

Waterfowl Hunters and the Avian Flu: What you need to know

Waterfowl Hunters and the Avian Flu: What you need to know

Waterfowl Hunters and the Avian Flu: What you need to know Frequently asked questions for duck and goose hunters regarding High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) © John Hoffman,...