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  • Nature & Wildlife

    A Beary Great Reality Show

    Jul 19, 2013 · Natural Habitat Adventures

    The second season of an internet reality show is coming our way this week. It features a very different kind of star, namely, the grizzly bears and wildlife of Katmai National Park and Preserve.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    The Endangered Species Act’s 40th Birthday: Time for a Makeover?

    Jul 2, 2013 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    On December 28, 1973, President Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act (ESA) into law. And, as with most of us who approach a 40th-birthday milestone, it’s time for reflection: have the act’s past four decades of life been well spent?

  • Alaska

    Rewilding: Reintroducing Wild Wood Bison to Alaska

    Jan 29, 2013 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    After more than 100 years of absence from the United States, a wild population of North America’s largest land mammal may soon be reintroduced to Alaska: wood bison. Larger than plains bison (Bison bison bison)—which may weigh up to 1,900 pounds—wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) bulls tip the scale at up to 2,250 pounds.

  • Videos

    Changing Minds with “Chasing Ice”

    Dec 11, 2012 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Not since Al Gore’s 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth has such a powerful documentary feature film come out about the Earth’s changing climate.

  • Videos

    Crittercam: Grizzly Bear Catches a Salmon

    Jul 5, 2012 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Photos of grizzly bears catching salmon over Brooks Falls in Alaska (such as the one above, which I captured on a trip to Alaska in 2006) have become iconic images for the state and for the still-wild areas of America in general.

  • News & More

    Change of Name: Should “Mount McKinley” Become “Denali”?

    Jul 3, 2012 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Nature surrounds us with an amazing variety of animals, insects, birds, plants and topographic features. To refer to and distinguish the entities in this bounty, we assign them names—often two: one for common use and one, a two-parter, for scientific identification. Usually, the person credited with discovering or finding something new gets naming rights.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Polar Bears Are Older than We Thought, and They Come from Ireland

    May 15, 2012 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Scientists—and those of us who are polar bear enthusiasts—have long thought that polar bears started off as brown bears about 150,000 years ago, adapting to their cold environment by developing smaller ears, thicker fur and teeth ideally shaped to tear into seal flesh.

  • Travel Tales

    Do Adventure Movies Inspire Risk-Taking?

    Mar 13, 2012 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Ever since the explorers of old used oral storytelling, flyers and published journals to spread word of streets lined with gold, fountains of youth or rich silks and spices, people have been using mass media to motivate others to go on adventures.