Candice Gaukel Andrews

Peril to Our Public Lands: Privatization

This week, on Thursday, August 25, the National Park Service will celebrate its centennial. This year has been filled with campaigns and events to commemorate...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Bell That “Speaks” for Those That Are Extinct

Bells have served as communication devices since ancient times. Throughout history, various cultures have reshaped and remodeled them to express different...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Memorial to Loss: the Mass Extinction Monitoring Observatory

We’re currently living in the midst of what scientists call the sixth mass extinction, the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. But the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Mining vs. Monument: Which Will We Choose for the Grand Canyon?

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of the planet’s Seven Natural Wonders. More than a mile deep, the canyon runs for 277 river miles, which are protected as...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: British Columbia Humpbacks May Soon Lose Ocean Quiet

In some of the last quiet, pristine waters on the British Columbia Coast, humpback whales are making a comeback. In the mid 1960s, when Canada stopped whaling...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Finding the Sound of Silence in Glacier Bay National Park

The quietest place you may ever experience is next to a little pond off the Forest Trail in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. Hiking there just a couple of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Piper, the Airport Runway Dog

For travelers, wildlife strikes to airplanes are no laughing matter. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the number of wildlife strikes to...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Five Live Critter Cams for Summer Viewing

We just passed the unofficial middle of summer, July 4. With that marker comes a usual complaint: there’s nothing to watch on TV. But now that most regular...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Traveler’s Crafty Revenge on Loud Cell Phone Users

Lately, it seems as if we’re encountering more and more bad behavior when we travel. And one of the most annoying habits people engage in that we’ve all had...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Dead Bees on Washington: Does the Environmental “Now” Ever Come?

Just two weeks ago, June 20-26, 2016, we celebrated the annual National Pollinator Week—or you may have observed it if you knew it was National Pollinator...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Family Politics: Ranking Climate Change

My sister and I, like most sisters, share a lot in common. But we don’t always see eye to eye when it comes to politics. Yesterday, she told me that in this...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Could a Parrot Be a Credible Murder Trial Witness?

We’re always delighted when we find evidence of extreme intelligence in the “others,” such as when we learn that crows crack nuts open by using passing cars...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

President Talks about Climate Change in Yosemite National Park: Is It Too Late?

On the day before Father’s Day 2016, President Obama visited Yosemite National Park. The trip was planned as a family vacation, but it also aimed to focus...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

When Signs Aren’t Enough: Walling Off Yellowstone National Park

It seems so simple. If there’s a sign warning you of danger and to “Keep Out,” you should. So how does a 23-year-old, college graduate—who had worked at a...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Father’s Day 2016: My Dad Always Said, “Leave a Place Better than You Found It”

Father’s Day is June 19 this year; and although my father is no longer with us, every year on this special day I reflect on some of the many things he taught...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Plants and People: Moving to Antarctica for Good—or Bad?

With our warming climate, some plants are managing to hitch a ride to Antarctica. Will they colonize and thereby change the continent?

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Films Shot in Fragile Places: Creating Conservationists or Eroding the Environment?

It’s the day after Memorial Day, the unofficial start of the summer season. While the summer solstice is still a ways to go—June 20—after Memorial Day,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: National Parks Embrace Zero Waste

Simply defined, zero waste is a goal where all discarded materials become resources for others to use. It eliminates all discharges to air, land or water that...

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