Tag: mountains

November 17, 2021

Climate change affects pikas even in unlikely areas

Climate change is driving American pikas upslope throughout much of their range. That appears to be true even in the Northern Rockies, where researchers thought they might be buffered by...

November 9, 2020

Pronghorn genetically similar throughout Wyoming

Even though pronghorn face obstacles from highways to mountain ranges across Wyoming, their genetics throughout the state are fairly similar, which seems to be good news for their viability. “There...

June 3, 2019

Reno-Tahoe: Two pasts, one future

Registration for The Wildlife Society & American Fisheries Society 2019 Joint Annual Conference is now open! Visit afstws2019.org for more information, or click here to register now! For those not...

September 12, 2016

Climate change wipes out pikas on isolated peaks

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...