Become a volunteer and help us collect data on wildlife this fall. As fall arrives, animals will be on the move across the country. Whether it is an annual migration, the “rut” or reproduction season, or animals fattening up for the winter, animals are moving through our landscapes. Those same landscapes are now criss-crossed with roads and human infrastructure, which has broken up habitat, making it harder for animals to find resources and get to where they need to go. It is

The Scott and Shasta Rivers are critical salmon watersheds, including habitat for threatened coho salmon. But both rivers have suffered from serious water-quality problems for decades. The Scott River is listed as impaired by excessive temperatures, sediment, and biostimulatory conditions, while the Shasta River is impaired by excessive temperatures and low dissolved oxygen. Hot water, sediment, and low oxygen can make it difficult for salmon to survive, particularly during t

The Trump Administration is proposing sweeping revisions to another important protection for federal forests: the Travel Management Rule. The repeal of the Travel Management Rule has garnered less attention than other recent regulatory gutting—like Trump’s recent Endangered Species Act rollbacks or the Roadless Rule rescission—but this action would reverse decades of work to help address the Forest Service’s failing road network.