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Public Lands & Protected Spaces

Public Lands & Protected Spaces

A New Idea for National Parks: Leave Some of Them to the Animals

Evidence from the pandemic found that bighorn sheep populations soared when people weren’t around to disturb them.
January 13, 2025
by
Hilary Clark
Evidence from the pandemic found that bighorn sheep populations soared when people weren’t around to disturb them.
Public Lands & Protected Spaces

Map the Commons, Protect the Planet

Helping Indigenous peoples to protect forests and other shared resources will keep us all safer from climate change and other threats.
July 3, 2024
by
Moushumi Basu
Helping Indigenous peoples to protect forests and other shared resources will keep us all safer from climate change and other threats.
Public Lands & Protected Spaces

There Is No Border Between Humans and Nature

What can Germany’s long-defunct Iron Curtain tell us about our place on Earth?
June 26, 2024
by
Kerstin Lange
What can Germany’s long-defunct Iron Curtain tell us about our place on Earth?
Hundreds if not thousands of birds sit in or near the water in a wetlands while a mountain looms behind them
Public Lands & Protected Spaces

Water and Cooperation Breathe New Life Into Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuges

Agriculture drained this ecosystem. Now, under the specter of future drought, the same systems have started to bring back both water and wildlife.
May 29, 2024
by
Juliet Grable
Agriculture drained this ecosystem. Now, under the specter of future drought, the same systems have started to bring back both water and wildlife.
A videographer in a wetsuit and scuba gear swims next to a giant Australian cuttlefish
Public Lands & Protected Spaces

How Do You Protect Something Most People Will Never See?

Meet the Fab Five: A combination of visual and virtual community engagement tools using charismatic species to help win hearts and minds toward saving the ocean.
May 6, 2024
by
Dr. David Shiffman
Meet the Fab Five: A combination of visual and virtual community engagement tools using charismatic species to help win hearts and minds toward saving the ocean.
Several people stand around burning grasses.
Public Lands & Protected Spaces

Fire for Watersheds

To bring more water to the landscape — and fight the growing risk of catastrophic wildfires — a Tribe in California helps to reshape fire management policy.
April 26, 2024
by
Ashley Braun
To bring more water to the landscape — and fight the growing risk of catastrophic wildfires — a Tribe in California helps to reshape fire management policy.
A woman in a hard hat and yellow vest tossed seed from a bag onto a rocky landscape.
Public Lands & Protected Spaces

The Monumental Effort to Replant the Klamath River Dam Reservoirs

As the dams come down, crews prepare for miles of new vegetation to rise up. That starts with thousands of tiny acorns.
February 20, 2024
by
Juliet Grable
As the dams come down, crews prepare for miles of new vegetation to rise up. That starts with thousands of tiny acorns.
River winds through rocky canyon with grasses
Public Lands & Protected Spaces

Will a ‘Wilderness’ Designation Help This Vital Ecosystem?

Conservationists agree that Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands are an ecologically important area, but how to protect them isn’t as simple.
February 5, 2024
by
Tara Lohan
Conservationists agree that Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands are an ecologically important area, but how to protect them isn’t as simple.
Dam stretching across wide river with wind turbines on hillsides.
Public Lands & Protected Spaces

When Renewable Energy Threatens Irreplaceable Tribal Culture

A pumped hydro facility is just one of many proposed clean energy projects that threaten cultural property of the Yakama Nation.
March 17, 2023
by
B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster, High Country News
A pumped hydro facility is just one of many proposed clean energy projects that threaten cultural property of the Yakama Nation.
woodpecker on burned tree
Public Lands & Protected Spaces

Learning to Love — and Protect — Burned Trees

Wildfire-killed trees are some of the most important structures in a forest. So why are they still being logged?
December 7, 2022
by
Tara Lohan
Wildfire-killed trees are some of the most important structures in a forest. So why are they still being logged?

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