It’s not what they do to people, it’s what they do to all the other prey species: My wife, Stephani, and I have tried to manage our ranch in Northern California as a wildlife preserve. We have protected or help…

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Bill Schneider at New West profiles an astoundingly huge proposed increase in the declared wilderness acreage of the Rocky Mountain region. Highlights: Protects most roadless lands in the northern Rockies (20,572,147 acres) by giving them the

…. you’re being watched: Because they are mostly nocturnal creatures, mountain lions are rarely seen. However, they have learned to live near humans. A few years ago a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service put GPS Global Tracking…

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Not for ore, necessarily, but for precious species. National Parks Traveler has the rundown: Today marked the end of the public comment period on the Park Service’s intention to open the parks to bioprospecting, in which commercial enterprises would be…

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The American College of Physicians Observer profiles Edgar Wayburn, who practiced medicine in the San Francisco Bay Area beginning in the ’30s but developed an obsession to save wild lands from development. For the next seven decades, Dr. Wayburn devoted…

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Winehiker posted these dandy links: What’s that Snake, and What Tree is it? (You’ll never need these links if you hike with Russ; he’s got ’em all committed to memory, but the guy can’t be everywhere).

National Parks Traveler suggests this is a great time to go looking for wildlife, and the time’s coming soon to see peak fall colors near the high peaks: Timing fall’s best colors in the Rockies is tricky, as they’re at…

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Steve at the WildeBeat has the scoop. Much of the credit for the current bear canister industry hinges on the fact that a guy named Garcia had a machine shop. Oh, and the fact that a hungry bear is a…

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