Rancher innovations to support soil health and water management as the climate changes
Soil health is gaining increasing notoriety as a major driver of agricultural water efficiency and drought resilience. But how can ranch managers and graziers rapidly improve soil health to cope
Teens take on species recovery
Colorado high school students release 250 endangered razorback suckers into the Colorado River, helping the endemic fish climb back toward safety. Fifty years after President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species
All together for the grayling
The beautiful fish that ignited a pioneering collaborative conservation model in Montana may not survive climate change. Was it worth it? In the summer of 1988, as apocalyptic wildfires ravaged Yellowstone
A comeback for the ages
Black-footed ferrets were once counted out. Their remarkable recovery now depends on creative collaboration between landowners and public wildlife managers. The rain finally let up, and the thunder quieted to a
The Ghost of the Prairie
Finding an endangered species on his ranch scared the daylights out of Russell Davis. What he did next may have saved his town. It’s before dawn, and a group of bird
A military proving ground shaped this conservation tool
After 15 years of serving the military’s growing needs for a combined science and access management tool, iSportsman is now available to private landowners to manage safe recreation access on
Surviving and thriving through generational change
By staying rooted in relationships with each other and the land, the Babbitt family kept their historic ranch together and secured its legacy for generations to come.
Don’t throw the baby out with the flood irrigation water
Growing seasons in the high desert are short. Most years, Adrian Hunolt figures, he has about 45 days to grow enough grass to sustain his cattle. Starting in April or May
Gwen Kolb, New Mexico’s swamp queen
“I’m just an odd duck,” Gwen Kolb says often. It may be the defining characteristic, and most valuable asset, of a life’s journey that ultimately would take her to a
Composting a recipe for conflict reduction
This is a simple recipe that is spreading from community to community in the Northern Rockies, just ahead of growing grizzly bear populations. It’s called carcass composting, and it’s another
The Fish & The Flame
Not many people will hike into a wildfire to rescue fish, but for Jim White, it’s all in a day’s work. A self-described “fish squeezer” since the age of seven,
Land on Fire
The apocalyptic dusk, tinged purple, is the product of some of the biggest wildfires raging in modern American history, casting a pall that has drifted in from hundreds of miles