GPS tracking collars on cougars have revealed that the predators extensively prey on the burgeoning feral horse populations in the Great Basin. “We found that both male and female [cougars] were taking horses, up to …
The removal of woodlands encroaching on sagebrush habitat in the Great Basin area could improve suitability for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). Researchers ran models to predict the impact of removing conifers associated with pinyon-juniper woodlands. …
When wildfires scorched 1 million acres of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) habitat in the Great Basin in 2012, it affected the survival of the birds, but it offered researchers a rare chance to study the …
Scientists described a new toad species in Nevada last month, an act they hope will protect the toad from a proposed power plant that they fear could destroy its tiny habitat. The Dixie Valley toad …
As the climate warms, a deadly scourge is spreading through North American pine forests: the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae). But the beetles aren’t killing every type of pine in their path, according to new …
Pikas are a textbook climate tragedy. As temperatures rise, the fluffy, cold-loving mammals retreat higher and higher up mountain slopes, eventually perishing on the too-warm peaks. But that isn’t happening everywhere, according to new research. …
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