Tag: restoration

Work to restore an island off the coast of Louisiana has resulted in a resurgence of water birds, state officials say. Rabbit Island had eroded from nearly 290 acres to...

The endangered tiger salamanders, the largest American terrestrial salamander, is making a comeback in Maryland, according to the department’s spring 2020 surveys keeping track of their breeding. “They are having...

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...

Using Science to Inform Land Management Debates and Decisions   On a warm July day in 2014, our group headed out to a field tour on the Mark Twain National...

The Minnesota Chapter of The Wildlife Society will hold its annual summer workshop Aug. 16 in St. Michael, Minnesota, with this year’s theme being wildlife and habitat restorations. The workshop...

Ever since they learned that the monarch butterfly’s swift decline is tied to reductions in its host plant, conservationists have been planting milkweed alongside roads to boost the pollinator’s population....

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services hosted a Marsh Resilience Tour August 20 at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, providing a look at the largest tidal marsh restoration project at the...

On the surface, it may seem like a corporate business such as Caterpillar, Inc., which supplies customers with construction equipment, doesn’t have much to do with sustainability or supporting nature....

The Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge in Albuquerque, N.M., isn’t your typical wildlife refuge – it’s a small grassy field that recently supported a dairy farm. On a field...

A habitat restoration project has begun on the banks of Shuswap Lake, less than a kilometer from Salmon Arm, British Columbia. The project, organized by the Salmon Arm Bay Enhancement...