by Gary Chandler | Feb 16, 2022 | Biodiversity
Wildlife Management Plans Running Behind As a Colorado native, I embrace the return of wolves to Colorado. Unfortunately, state wildlife agencies are preoccupied with the reintroduction of the species and failed to account for the natural return of these predators. It...
by Gary Chandler | Jul 7, 2021 | Biodiversity
Forest Conservation An Existential Issue For Humanity Steve Irwin was best-known as the crocodile hunter. His enthusiasm for the natural world was contagious. He would be proud to know that two young Australians are doing their best to fill his shoes. They are doing a...
by Gary Chandler | Nov 17, 2020 | Biodiversity
Government Must Promote Biodiversity, Not Private Interests Colorado and the entire American West have gone through a massive transformation over the past 150 years. Westward expansion came at the expense of Native Americans, wildlife, forests and entire ecosystems....
by Gary Chandler | Jan 20, 2020 | Biodiversity
Half Of Global GDP Dependent On Nature Ecosystems around the world are on the verge of collapse. Deforestation alone is promoting extinction and climate change. It is a planetary emergency. Humans have wiped out 83 percent of wild mammals and half of all plants and...
by Gary Chandler | Jan 8, 2016 | Biodiversity
Wolves Critical To Healthy Ecosystems Evidence of a wolf in Modoc County was reported yesterday by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The 3-year-old male wolf, who is radio-collared and dubbed OR-25 by the state wildlife agency in Oregon, left his...
by Gary Chandler | Oct 29, 2014 | Biodiversity
Wolf Conservation Critical To Healthy Ecosystems Whether you believe in god, science or both, wolves are here for a reason. They and all species are part of the web of life, which supports us all. To think that wildlife and forests require is arrogant and ignorant....