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Asian Carp, an "Alien" Threat to Lake Erie
"Attack of the Alien Invaders," produced by WVIZ/PBS, was first created as an educational series called "LSI: Life Science Investigation." Lake Erie is considered to be the most productive of all five...
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Sharktober Continues in November
Leatherback turtle offshore of Moss Landing, California. Photographed by Michael Sack, Sanctuary Cruises It was another incredible weekend visually foraging for wildlife out on the Gulf of the...
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Your Photos on QUEST: Mike Forsberg
Article by Michael Farrell of QUEST Nebraska. Map by Abram Lueders of QUEST Nebraska. I first became aware of Mike Forsberg’s work Great Plains: America’s Lingering Wild two years ago when I was asked...
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Porpoises Return to San Francisco Bay
Harbor porpoises as seen from the Golden Gate Bridge. (Photo: William Keener/Golden Gate Cetacean Research) Harbor porpoises haven't been seen in San Francisco Bay for more than 60 years. But now,...
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Songbirds as a Measure of Farm Sustainability
Dickcissel – a grassland bird. Photo Credit: Amy Larson In an effort to improve the sustainability and health of their land, farmers are increasingly interested in taking a systems approach to farmland...
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California’s Gray Wolves
Will gray wolves return to California? Photo: MacNeil Lyons, National Park Service/ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Midwest Region. When a gray wolf wearing a GPS collar crossed from Oregon into...
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Lone Wolf’s Historic Trek Provokes Questions and Concerns
A wolf from OR7's pack in Oregon. (Image: Oregon Department of Fish and Game) OR7, the lone gray wolf from a pack in Oregon, crossed back into his home state yesterday after two months of wandering in...
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Grazing a New Trail
Cattle ranching has a bad rap in the conservation community, but a new study suggests they can also be part of a solution. Image credit: Albert P. Bekker. What's an ecologist to do when non-native...
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Gigantic Journeys: Humpback and Gray Whale Migration
Humpback Breaching by Samuel Embry. Calving grounds off the coast of Maui are active with humpback whales. Look at a globe or photo of Earth from space and you can see our blue planet, with the...
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Small Rewards: Tiny Frogs and Chameleons Find and Fill a Niche
Recent discoveries of a Lilliputian lizard and elfin amphibian, fascinating in their own right, highlight one of the most enduring questions in biology: what controls the evolution of body size? Why...
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The Salmon are Back! (But Why?)
Chinook salmon on the Lower Tuolumne River in California's Central Valley. Photo courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service At Fisherman's Wharf, in San Francisco, what brings in the crowds are...
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Life Aquatic and Terrestrial: California Newts
California newts are migrating from land to water. Photo by Yostkr. Over the last couple of weeks I've visited the seasonal ponds in the East Bay at Sibley Volcanic Preserve and small creeks at...
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Fair Game? On Lions, Hunters and Wildlife Policy
Kyla, a female mountain lion rescued as a kitten afterpoachers killed her mother, now lives at Sonoma CountyWildlife Rescue in Petaluma. (Photo: Liza Gross) Should the head of an agency charged with...
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Science on the SPOT: Monarch Meetup
Bugs normally don’t garner much adoration from people, but monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are an exception. Monarch butterflies are arguably the most beloved and instantly identifiable insect...
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Wildflowers are Waking Up in the Bay Area
California poppies at Sunol Regional Wilderness by Samuel Embry “Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.” (Louie Schwartzberg)...
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Classification Challenge: Documenting Microbes, Biodiversity’s Hidden Treasure
The tubeworm Lamellibrachia luymesi lives around hydrocarbon-releasing ocean floor seeps in the Gulf ofMexico. It gets the sulfide it needs to survive from amenagerie of bacteria and archaea that live...
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Field Notes: Oakland Zoo in Uganda
Zoos and Aquariums Embrace Conservation Text by Amy Gotliffe, Conservation Director at the Oakland Zoo. There are many admirable conservation organizations around the world, but zoos and aquariums have...
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Exploring Corals of the Deep
It's hard to fathom that off our central California coast, just 80 miles southwest of Monterey, is a massive underwater mountain which blooms with deep sea coral life, including some corals which were...
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The Good and Not-So-Good News About California Salmon
Chinook salmon, Feather River Hatchery, Oroville. Credit: Dan Brekke After years of dire tidings, the news this year about California's chinook salmon all sounds good. Federal fisheries biologists have...
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California's Deadlocked Delta: Can We Bring Back What We've Lost?
This is the second story in our three-part series on California's Delta. A map of the Delta created by the US Geological Survey in the 1910s. As detective stories go, this sunny, spring day in the...
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