Note from the Associate Editor (summer 2015)
In Wyoming, wildlife does more than just satisfy the fleeting affections of summertime tourists holding smartphones out car windows.
A Tale of Two Migrations
The splash of one fish ripples through an ecosystem
In 2007, biologist Arthur Middleton was studying the Clark’s Fork elk herd
The Trout Effect
Cutthroat trout once linked aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in Yellowstone National Park. As their numbers decline, the link is weakening.
Grizzlies and Whitebarks
Where do bears turn when an important food source starts to vanish?
Golden and red-hued leaves and crisp evenings mark the coming of fall in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
The Feedgrounds Conundrum
Brucellosis spreads as Wyoming tries to protect livestock
As he does every single morning from November into April, Bondurant, Wyoming, rancher Kevin Campbell leads his two draft horses, Ed and Smoke, out of their pen and harnesses them to the hay wagon to feed elk.
A Brief History of Brucellosis
~1887 – British physician David Bruce investigated a mysterious illness that killed four soldiers on the Mediterranean island of Malta
Bird v. Bird
The complicated relationship between sage grouse and their avian predators
Photo by Charlie Reinertsen.
Rancher Truman Julian says he has “a place in his heart” for greater sage grouse.
Sage grouse shape development patterns in Wyoming
This fall, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will decide whether the greater sage grouse merits endangered species protection, and Wyoming is holding its breath.
Constructing Sage Grouse Habitat
Does mowing, burning, or spraying sagebrush actually help?
Kurt Smith plucks the fifth secondary feather from the five-week-old sage grouse’s wing
Sagebrush Treatments
Dr. Jeffrey Beck and his colleagues and students have quantified canopy cover, measured native and invasive plants, counted insects including ants
Farming Sagebrush
Can fertilizer grow more deer on public lands?
Imagine the old green fertilizer spreader you haul out every spring to urge your tired lawn back to greenness, but much bigger and suspended from the bottom of a helicopter.
Life Among the Turbines
Researcher explores how grassland birds respond to wind farms
On the eastern Wyoming plains, the wind whips hard across tough little bunch grasses
The Tiniest Engineer
Ants shape the sagebrush ecosystem
“Can you show me some ant mounds on Google Earth?”
The Big Picture
New research explores how critters fare in the oil and gas fields
Over the last 15 years, drilling has intensified in formerly remote wildlife habitats across the West.
Nomad, Weaver, Storyteller
Fiber artist Doris Florig weaves natural history in her tapestries
“While experimenting with natural dye materials for the pronghorn coat
The Forgotten Grassland Bird
Hunting for a Sprague’s pipit in a changing landscape
Sagebrush scraped the doors of the beat up red truck as it bumped down the faint two-track.
Remembering Luke Lynch
As Wyoming State Director for The Conservation Fund, Luke Lynch led several projects to conserve open spaces
Solutions: Sustaining Migrations
The journey from discovery to conservation in the Red Desert to Hoback mule deer corridor
It was going to be a routine mule deer study. The Bureau of Land Management contracted Hall Sawyer
Essay: Wyoming Wins with Wildlife
The cow and yearling moose that inhabited my densely populated west Jackson neighborhood all winter finally
