If you build it (for the salamanders) they (the bears) will come. Imagine our surprise when our staff and staff from Vermont Agency of Transportation saw this trail cam photo of a hefty black bear using one of our amphibian crossing tunnels in Monkton. Second pic shows biologists for scale!

guess what we saw just outside the lower NY bay today⁉️

Mt. Columbia (14,077'), the fourth fourteener for Kitty Rosé — duchess of talus, queen of the alpine, indefatigable pugbull of the Collegiate Peaks.

Suburban Utah is ground zero for deer conservation, Ben Goldfarb reports for High Country News. One community is building a giant fence to protect the animals' migration routes. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Our final bonus episode for our Imperfect Paradise series "Lions, Coyotes and Bears" is out. Jill Replogle speaks with Ben Goldfarb about how roads affect wildlife: laist.com/news/shows/imp…

Attention Buffalo friends! I'm delighted to be talking corridors & crossings this Wednesday w/ the Western New York Land Conservancy (WNY Land Conservancy), a great org that's reconnecting the region. Speaking of crowd size, we're already at 250+ registrants. Join us! wnylc.org/goldfarb

The intransigence of U.S. Department of Transportation makes sense when you think of them as an extension of the car industry. The means to make roads safe are low cost, low tech, available, effective and proven. We are decades behind peer nations because our DOTs exist to preserve automobile hegemony.

New research from @uogbioscience found a 205% increase in the richness of larvae/nymphs of emergent species, an 817% boost in their abundance & 42% rise in bat activity at beaver sites compared to the control. Dive into the research 👇 eprints.glos.ac.uk/14265/1/14265%… Prof Anne Goodenough Bat Conservation Trust

A little late to posting this, but it was my pleasure to chat about CROSSINGS on This Podcast Will Kill You earlier this month (This Podcast Will Kill You). Deer-vehicle collisions: definitely a Thing That Can Kill You. thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2024/08/06/spe…

I wrote a book. It's out today! The New York Times: "A journalist explores how climate change and design flaws in the Colorado River's Glen Canyon Dam are leading to the death of a major reservoir. The twist: It could offer an opportunity for a more sustainable future."

i know this is a critique but honestly #floodedwithbeavcontent is the way that all social media feeds should be.

you know you're back in a northeastern forest when 😍

UPDATE The last two dams have been breached. The Klamath River is flowing freely in its channel for the first time in more than a century. I wasn't there to see it, but a photographer shared these images from Iron Gate. latimes.com/environment/st… (Photos by Matt Mais, Yurok Tribe)

I often feel like an itinerant preacher — so it was appropriate that I finally spoke in a church. Many thanks to my friends WNY Land Conservancy for inviting me to Buffalo to share the gospel of wildlife crossings with 200 eager souls at the spectacular Trinity Episcopal! #roadecology

Suggested readings for those wishing to explore past battles over dams and current ones over highways: Cadillac Desert, a classic Encounters w/the Archdruid, a portrait of dam-hater David Brower Crossings, a primer on road ecology City Limits, a portrayal of TX highway fights

Leopard shark aggregation, Catalina Island, California.

"We’re disease detectives... across animals and the environment.” Appreciated this NYer piece (and the great illo accompanying it) on America's wildlife vets, unsung public health heroes. newyorker.com/science/elemen…

"I wondered how animals responded when vehicles abandoned one of the West’s most iconic protected areas—& how they’ll react when traffic returns." For High Country News, I wrote about the inadvertent experiment playing out in Denali Nat Park. #roadecology hcn.org/issues/56-9/wh…

For an upcoming story, I'm in search of a very specific source: an expert in the ecological impacts of nonnative lizards in North America. Any leads appreciated!

"School buses have entered a phase known in mass transit circles as a 'death spiral,' in which declining service quality leads to declining ridership, which justifies further cuts." Appreciated this elegy for the humble yellow bus. #humanroadecology slate.com/business/2024/…