Wildlife connectivity expert Dr. Patricia Cramer shares evolution in thinking on animal corridors, crossings Nonhuman life — all other species besides Homo sapiens — too often pays the price of mankind’s relentless growth. As conservation advocate Logan Christian of the Mountain Lion Foundation said, “Human activity continues to fragment wildlife…

For basketball fans and players, the third month of the year means “March Madness,” one of the biggest sporting events. March for some college undergraduates means spring break in exotic locales. For thousands of this year’s medical school graduates, March means the exciting culmination of eight years of higher education…

A version of this article first appeared in Santa Barbara’s Noozhawk. Listed as an endangered species in 1967, the red wolf (Canis rufus) was declared extinct in the wild in 1980. A native of the Southeastern U.S. for 10,000 years, the species has continued, albeit in low numbers, only because…

Book Ideas for Kids this Christmas Some of my best childhood memories are of visiting a cozy bookstore off of Grand Avenue in Ponca City, Okla., heading to the bookcase where all the Nancy Drew books were housed on the bottom shelf and then taking a seat on the floor excited to learn if there were…

Millions of animals die on U.S. roads every year. Automotive innovations, reductions in night-time driving and a $350 million pilot program for wildlife corridors offer promise to stem future senseless loss. This article first ran in Noozhawk, Santa Barbara, Calif. As a city dweller for 30 years in the second…

Since the founding of our country, Americans have pushed West — Manifest Destiny … “Go west, young man ” … “The West is the best.” “How the West was Won” (both the movie and real life versions) was through pluck, luck, powerful determination and backbreaking labor. …

Unintentionally Highlights Importance of Men in Family Planning Rep. Chris Rabb (D-Pa.) got media traction recently when he proposed requiring vasectomies for men once they hit age 40, or after their third child, whichever came first. Intended as parody, that point wasn’t clear as it was buried at the end…

As soon as the reader digs into Frosty Wooldridge’s “America’s Overpopulation Predicament: Blindsiding Future Generations,” s/he is hit with a staggering amount of stats on issues that, unless one lives in media isolation, should be somewhat familiar — peak oil, species/biodiversity extinction, consumption, pollution and the underpinning escalating all these…

Good Dads Are Across Species Father’s Day is a day to honor dads — human dads, that is. But there are dads of other species who deserve credit too. In our household, Alfie the Great helped rear kittens Bear, Popsicle, Ms. Z and Count Catcula. …