A new petition published in the journal Nature today from 240 leading conservationists, including UC Santa Cruz faculty, argues that conservation’s impact on the world is being hindered by the field’s ...

WANAMINGO, Minn. — Up that hill and east of that barn … there’s two projects that were done for my dad in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, Fred Halvorson says. Halvorson, a semi-retired ...

The relationship between being a conservationist and an outdoor recreationist is complicated, even paradoxical. How can someone claim to protect the land while actively using it for adventure and ...

This year marks the Cedar River Watershed's 100th anniversary as Seattle's primary source of drinking water. The Cedar River Watershed Education Center, to open this Saturday, will honor this vital ...

I recently testified at a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources hearing in Washington, D.C., to express my support for the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed Public Lands Rule ...

I recently spent a few days at the Black River on Apache tribal lands. Wildlife was abundant and the river ran clear and strong, the fishing good and the land intact. The ground was not being ripped ...

In a year of adversity, many previous years of preparation pay off. In the second driest summer in 107 years of record keeping, the Beel family of Johnstown counted on its long commitment to ...

The evolving field called compassionate conservation (see also), in which the guiding principle "First do no harm" stresses the importance of individual nonhuman animals (animals), is gaining ...

J. Baird Callicott is often credited with founding the field of environmental ethics. Beginning by teaching the world’s first course in environmental ethics in 1971 at the University of Wisconsin ...

"Broadly speaking, a posthuman perspective would call into question the anthropocentric notion that humans are to be privileged over all other forms of life. Posthumanism generally aligns with a more ...

GAYLORD — Huron Pines is in the midst of a $1 million fundraising campaign designed to enhance the organization's conservation goals in Northern Michigan. Brad Jensen is the executive director of the ...

WI (WISCONSIN CONSERVATION HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION, INC. PRESS RELEASE) - The Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame (WCHF) ...