Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Yellowstone: Restoring Wolves Revived Willows

    Nov 2, 2021 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Ever since the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, there has been controversy and debate about the benefits and ecosystem services that the predators have actually provided; whether it was a good idea to bring the wolves back to their ancestral home or not.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Assessing the Beliefs of Animals

    Jun 22, 2021 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    If you asked any wildlife fan or pet owner if animals have beliefs, I’m guessing their answers would almost all fall within the “yes” category, based on observations and anecdotal evidence. Science, however, is always held to a higher standard: proof is required.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Nature Is a “Happy Place” for Children

    Jun 15, 2021 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    When children were recently asked to draw their “happy places,” more than half of them created drawings that included aspects of nature and outdoor spaces, such as gardens, grass, lakes, outdoor playgrounds, parks, rainbows, rivers, sunlight or trees. Trees, in particular, were drawn by a third of the children.

  • African Safaris

    African Wild Dogs and the Necessity of Wildlife Corridors

    Jun 8, 2021 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Larger than Austria and Germany combined and nearly twice as big as the United Kingdom, the enormous KAZA (Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area) lies in the Kavango and Zambezi River Basins where Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe converge.

  • Conservation

    Trees: Foundations for Ecosystems and Learning

    May 4, 2021 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Unlike Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22 every year, Arbor Day is a bit of a moving target. While National Arbor Day is always the last Friday in April, many states observe their Arbor Days on different dates based on the best tree-planting times in their areas.

  • Nature & Wildlife

    Recording the “Voices” of Utah’s Red Rocks

    Apr 27, 2021 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    Rocks are unmoving. They are solid and stoic, massive and stolid; forever dependable as an essential part of the Earth’s crust. Promontories and peaks, cliffs and crags, are all rocks. Even the very word rock implies a brand of strength, sturdiness and stability, unchanging over the millennia. That’s the conventional view, anyway.