by Beth Holmes | May 3, 2021 | Conservation, Sustainability
In the early 1700s, the estimated population of the American bison across North America was more than 60 million. They were a major food source for Native Americans from Alaska to Mexico, from New York to Georgia. Then with the western expansion of the United States...
by Admin | Aug 15, 2016 | Articles, Conservation
The black-footed ferret has been endangered for quite some time. They were actually listed as extinct in 1979, but a population was rediscovered in 1981, and as of 2011 there were about 1,000 of them in the wild. Since then, that number has dropped to about 300....
by Admin | Jan 27, 2015 | Articles, Environmental hazards
News broke earlier this month about a massive oil spill into Montana’s Yellowstone River, the second in less than four years. The terrible incident is now causing officials to question an oversight in the nation’s aging pipeline network. Company officials and...