Tag: wildlife
‘America’s Mississippi’ Review: Overflowing With Life
The amazing wildlife of the Mississippi River.
In Mozambique, a Living Laboratory for Nature’s Renewal
This remarkable success story from Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park shows how fast systems can recover when keystone grazers, numerous prey species and the full compliment of predators are restored. For more on this topic look …
Building Riparian Resilience Through Beaver Restoration
As this article explains, every aspect of desert ranching and conservation of wildlife is enhanced by beavers.
Book Review: Fair Chase, the Sportsman’s Legacy
When people discuss Fair Chase, they often view the topic through a tunnel instead of holistically — and miss the fact that predation is central to conservation. Hunters are often as unaware of this natural …
A Texas Native Recovers
Not long before the first European (Viking) explorations in North America, condors were still present in Texas. As published by U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C., November 2S, 1932, ALEXANDER WETMORE and HERBERT FRIEDMANN …
Are Wolves the Pronghorn’s Best Friend?
Wolf and coyote eradications have exploded coyote numbers across North America. This has increased coyote predation of pronghorn fawns. Coyotes are pronghorns’ most effective predators; wolves will not tolerate coyotes. 150-years of coyote ‘management’ using …
These Hungry Goats Learned to Branch Out
At Circle Ranch we have also found that goats can be very useful as grazing tools to help maintain habitat for wildlife.
Hunting Moose in Canada to Save Caribou From Wolves
Wildlife interactions are often counterintuitive. When we oversimplify these unimaginably complex systems we do things that inadvertently damage wildlife and its habitat.
Uninvited Vultures Coexist with Animals at San Antonio Zoo
These vultures are neither “invasive” nor “invaders.” They’re just wild animals filling empty niches created by human impact. It’s nature’s way—and they should be left alone.
California Condor Takes Flight in Wild After Near Extinction
The condor “once patrolled the sky from Mexico to British Columbia,” including far-West Texas. Perhaps someday soon they will again. While the majestic sight of a condor in flight makes it obvious why we should …