Deadly collisions: How we can diminish fatal bird strikes and save lives
Learn here to make your home and community safer for birds
Most probably, we nearly all have heard the sickening THUMP! of a bird unknowingly flying straight into a glass window. The soft-feathered innocent drops straight to the ground, perhaps leaving a smudge of downy plumage and of bodily fluids on the glass. Very likely, that bird died almost instantly. Possibly, it recovered sufficiently so as to fly or crawl away to die somewhere else. Maybe the neighbor’s outdoor cat finished off the bird.
Seed gatherers: Volunteers making prairies possible
It’s late summer, but the dry grassland already displays autumn’s palette of washed-out greens, glowing yellows and golds, countless hues of brown.
Earth Day at 55: A look back to 1970, a look around today
10 ideas to honor our planet this Earth Day
Other than the date I was born, there are very few days further back in my life than, say, last week when I remember where I was and what I was doing. The earliest such day that comes to mind is April 22, 1970. That was the first Earth Day.
Great trails don’t maintain themselves
Well-maintained trails benefit both people and nature. They provide safe access while protecting fragile ecosystems. Keeping these paths and their associated infrastructure in good order requires work – work that often goes unnoticed by most visiting nature-lovers.
Optimizing the economics of urban wood through product certification and online markets
The best use for trees needing to be removed from an urban setting, many people will agree, is to harvest and mill their wood to be used in carbon-sequestering construction and woodworking activities.
Paramėlis Island: A bird-watcher’s endangered paradise
This Impact Focus explores whether tourism can support wetlands restoration, environmental education, forest conservation, and biodiversity.
Urban lumber prolongs trees’ value to the community
Increasingly recognized today for its ecological, cultural, aesthetic, and economic value, urban lumber is a product of opportunity created out of a necessity sometimes caused by calamity.