The conservation ethic is an ethic of resource use, allocation, exploitation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its forests, fisheries, habitats, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For this year’s Earth Day — the annual event celebrated on April 22 worldwide by more than 193 countries — we might pause to consider two perspectives on water policy. One viewpoint emphasizes the ...

Despite October’s record-setting rains, Central Valley farmers are still reeling from having their water supplies drastically reduced when the drought intensified last spring. Many farmers have been ...

As we mark the 75th anniversary of Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” and approach the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust, we find ourselves at a ...

For his family, the citizens of Lee County and the wounded soldiers he evacuated during the Vietnam War, Fred Bartleson Jr. was the right person at the right time. “A man of unquestionable integrity” ...

The Clean Power Plan is designed to reduce Montana’s contribution to the carbon pollution now affecting our climate and every person on earth. The steady flow of scientific verification along with ...

The percentage of an auto shredder’s operating budget that goes toward utilities varies by operation, with some operators saying power costs fall toward the bottom of the list, preceded by the cost of ...