Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Reforestation, One Nation and One Person at a Time

Around the world, deforestation is causing millions of species to lose their natural habitats. Estimates are that tracts half the size of England are lost...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Disappearing Glaciers of Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park is smack-dab in the center of the breathtaking Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, which spans 10 million acres on either side of the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Study Shows That Mountain Lions Fear the Sound of Human Voices

The largest wild cat in North America, the mountain lion—also known as a catamount, cougar, panther and puma—has powerful limbs and can leap as high as 15...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Golden Eagle Catch and Release

One of the largest birds in North America, a golden eagle is an expert hunter. It can dive on prey from tremendous heights and has been clocked flying close...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Humpback Whales Are Gathering in Huge Numbers. Why?

Whales are complex creatures with very large brains. We are only just beginning to understand small portions of their highly developed cultures. Among the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

African Wild Dogs Are the First Heat-Adapted Species Shown to Be Suffering from Climate Change

Polar bears struggling to find the ice floes they need for hunting and survival became the icon of climate change and our rapidly warming planet decades ago....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Watch Tigers Being Released into the Wild

Watching wild animals being returned to their natural habitats after an accident or injury is immensely gratifying and often thrilling. Restoring even just a...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: First Bison Calf Is Born on Wind River Reservation

Arapaho and Shoshone people on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming—2.2 million acres of tribal lands—released 10 genetically pure bison on November 3, 2016....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Losing Wildlife Hurts Biodiversity—and Our Bottom Lines

Wildlife tourism—tourism specifically based on encounters with undomesticated animals—accounts for 20 to 40 percent of the total $1 trillion annual, global...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Lost California Grizzlies

Although prominently featured on the California flag, a wild grizzly bear hasn’t been seen in the state since the 1920s. In the early 1800s, about 50,000...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzly Bears Just Lost Federal Protections

Later this month, in late July 2017, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears outside Yellowstone National Park and nearby Grand Teton National Park will...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Needing Trees: Giant Sequoia National Monument and a Forested City

Today is the Fourth of July, the day we celebrate the founding of the United States and all the things that make our nation unique. More than 150 years ago,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Watch as Robotic Animals Secretly “Spy” on Wildlife

Camera traps, GPS tracking and radio-collaring are all tools that researchers have traditionally used to study the wildlife that shares the planet with us....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Quickly Losing Protections: Our Birds, Lands and Oceans

One hundred and eleven years ago, the American Antiquities Act of 1906 was passed. It authorizes the president to designate federally managed lands as...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

When Animals Gather, Our Language Gets Lyrical

When we get together to appreciate the arts, for political purposes, for social interactions or simply for support, we can be called, among other things, an...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Bison Return to Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation

Bison, our national mammal, have returned to more of their homeland. On November 3, 2016, 10 bison were released on the 2.2-million-acre Wind River...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: White Deer, the Ghosts of the Forest

Throughout history, people have been fascinated by wild animals that are all white. True to tradition, in Wisconsin, where I live, residents have a special...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

White, Wild Animals and Why Difference Shouldn’t Be Wrong

A framed photo that hung on a wall of my grandfather’s large dining room is one of my earliest memories. Sepia-toned, it depicted a herd of deer, taken in...

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