Blog Archives for Science

By Bethanie Walder - July 22, 2010   On July 20, the Forest Service released their new Climate Change Roadmap, along with a new “scorecard” that will enable the national office to annually rate how each individual national forest is adapting to and mitigating for climate change.

By Bethanie Walder - March 17, 2010    NY Time commentator Olivia Judson posted a terrific piece today, Divide and Diminish, about habitat fragmentation and biodiversity.  While the information isn't necessarily new, her explanations about island biogeography and related processes puts things in good perspective. Here's an excerpt:

By Thomas R Petersen - February 26, 2010    Canada's grizzly bears are in the news again, and this time not directly because of the controversial bear hunt, but because of "...massive hunting mortality along B.C.'s highways."

By Bethanie Walder - February 23, 2010   New Study Points to Off-Road Vehicle Activity as Primary Source of Air Pollution at Nipomo Mesa, California The San Luis Obispo Air Control Board released a study yesterday (Feb 22) on the impacts of off-road vehicle use at the Oceano Dunes and the resultant air pollution at the nearby Nipomo Mesa.  The study was initially slated for release in December 2009, but was postponed until this week.

By Bethanie Walder - October 7, 2009    I spent the last two days at the Western Governor’s Association (WGA) Wildlife Council (WGWC) meeting in Helena.  The meeting focused on progress toward implementing a resolution for improving wildlife connectivity and linkage zones across the western states.

By Josh Hurd - May 26, 2009   Adaptation to climate change no longer implies giving up on the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Rather, it is an acknowledgement that global warming is already affecting the world. A recent Yale Environment 360 article on the matter discusses this issue:

By - May 19, 2009    by Greg Peters, Field Coordinator

By adamswitalski - May 18, 2009    Greg Peters, our Field Coordinator, and I began to set up Wildlands CPR’s wildlife monitoring field sites on the Clearwater National Forest this weekend.  After a week of rain and snow, the skies cleared and we had a sunny first day in the field.   Our first site was a recontoured road.  It was pretty steep and rocky at the entrance and made for some difficulty carrying the track plate and roof

By Bethanie Walder - May 1, 2009   In April 2009 the Forest Service submitted their final Legacy Roads reports for 2008 to Congress.  While we’ve been trying to get the actual reports directly from the agency, we haven’t succeeded yet.  But we do have scanned copies (best quality we could get, sorry) of the hard copy that was submitted to Congress.  There’s a separate report for each region, each of which includes a spreadsheet of the projects that were funded followed by individual one page reports from a handful of projects with photos and summaries of the pur

By adamswitalski - April 27, 2009    This past week, Wildlands CPR assisted The Nature Conservancy in hosting a workshop entitled, “Improving road systems in the context of watershed restoration” in Astoria, OR.  The workshop was attended by a diverse group of about 25 watershed restoration specialists from around the region.  Representatives from the Forest Service, Oregon Department of Forestry, Washington Department of Natural Resources, NGOs, and private consultants exchanged information about planning, prioritizing, and implementing road system treatments including road decommissioning.