Tag: ecosystems

The Interior Department has dedicated $9 million for 40 projects in eight western states to protect sagebrush ecosystems from invasive species, wildfire and other threats. “This is an historic opportunity...

The White House recently launched a nationwide challenge to invest $1 billion in conservation projects consistent as part of President Biden’s America the Beautiful initiative over the next five years....

At a recent meeting of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, committee members expressed the importance of federal investments in ecosystem conservation and restoration in order to advance...

Since recolonizing Minnesota about 70 years ago, beavers have provided a wealth of ecosystem services that continue to this day. Researchers say the information they’ve uncovered can help managers who...

It’s no surprise to many wildlife managers that invasive species might affect the stability of an ecosystem. For example, invasive species could potentially edge out native ones. An easy response...

Wolves in Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park are changing the wetlands ecosystem there, researchers found, due to their appetite for beavers. “Wolves eat a lot of beavers, especially in Voyageurs, where...

By setting out recorders in the middle of ecosystems, researchers have developed unique audio “fingerprints” representing the whole system to tell them whether habitat is high or low quality. “Traditional...

Before California’s Central Valley became known as an agricultural powerhouse, it contained one of the largest expanses of streamside forest and wetland habitat in North America. Vast forests of valley...

Regardless it’s focused on a river floodplain or an entire national park, the success of a restoration project depends on more than just the reintroduction of individual plant or animal...

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington last Sunday, a group of cross-disciplinary scientists from the Santa Fe Institute presented their investigations...