Listening in to help monitor northern spotted owls
By listening to sounds collected from recording devices in the forest, researchers can detect northern spotted owls and invasive barred owls, which can help with ...
Pacific Northwest
For pikas, heat isn’t climate change’s only threat
Throughout much of their range, American pikas (Ochotona princeps) face threats from warming temperatures brought on by climate change. Small mammal that mostly ...
25 years after Northwest Forest Plan, birds still declining
In the 25 years since the Northwest Forest Plan was initiated, bird species still are not recovering, researchers found, despite sweeping protections the plan ...
Responding to drought, salamanders and trout seem resilient
Many well-known species like polar bears (Ursus maritimus) face immediate threats from climate change. But some wildlife, like populations of coastal cutthroat ...
As climate warms, old-growth forests could give birds refuge
With temperatures expected to rise over the coming decades, some bird species could find it difficult to cope and suffer declines. But researchers in the Pacific ...
Japanese tsunami flooded US with invasives
In June 2012, 15 months after a magnitude-9 earthquake struck northeastern Japan and sent a colossal tsunami hurtling through the oceans, a 66-foot slab of concrete ...
Rare bumblebee makes comeback
Populations of the bumblebee species Bombus occidentalis have been taken on a rollercoaster ride of declining and re-emerging, but the bees now appears to be on the ...