Among the dozens of publicly protected national parks, hundreds of wilderness areas, and thousands of state parks in the contiguous U.S., none are larger than the Adirondack Park, a 6 million-acre wilderness area that spreads across upstate...
The Thomas More Field Station is managed by a team of students, faculty and staff who facilitate ongoing restoration and monitoring programs.
Dynamic and healthy ecosystems can become center points for towns, cities, and entire regions—such is the case in the Newfound Lake Region.
Countless species of flora and fauna around the world are being listed as either threatened, endangered, or extinct.
TNC programs and projects rely on continuous monitoring to ensure that coastal restoration and habitat enhancement initiatives are successful.
Endangered mussel surveys are a necessary step in project planning because the distribution of mussels and species assemblage relative to a planned project is critical to completing the required environmental documentation while protecting native species.
Though few people pay any mind to the occasional “clam” shell spotted along a river bank or lake, these small but mighty creatures are deeply important to water systems across the United States, and many of them...
Gar, long considered a trash fish, are newly valued by science and fishermen around the country.
For thirty five years, Great Lakes communities have been restoring polluted areas, learning and reaping the economic benefits.
In North Carolina, a collaborative approach is helping scientists restore native brook trout and test them genetically.
A customized ROV is helping Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife scientists monitor rockfish where they live.
The Youth Conservation Corps program at the Midcoast Conservancy in Maine is connecting generations and protecting water quality.
Macalester College’s Katharine Ordway Natural History Study Area provides researchers with a chance to study Minnesota’s tallgrass prairies and other habitats.
Ducks Unlimited partners with Southern Region farmers and other landowners to preserve, protect and restore diverse Southern Region habitat, including rice field wetlands.
Protecting, enhancing and restoring wetlands in the Great Lakes area, Ducks Unlimited has worked tirelessly to save thousands of vulnerable acres.
There are over a thousand acres of plants to see at Longwood Gardens, including conservatory gardens, outdoor gardens and conserved meadows.
Ducks Unlimited is expanding their Living Lakes Initiative, improving water quality, and restoring the “duck factories” of the prairie pothole habitat.
Archbold Biological Station is a wildlife research haven in the heart of Florida with extensive long-term records for rare species, fire, floods and more.
A team of scientists proves that eDNA can be used to more effectively track the range of rare species of sharks in the ocean.
Scientists using both traditional kick-seining and modern eDNA to survey a rare crayfish population found that there was no eDNA abundance signal.