Candice Gaukel Andrews

National Parks and Private Partners: A Blueprint for the Future?

Just about a year ago, on June 8, 2015, the carmaker Subaru of America Inc. and the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) announced a partnership....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Bison Named Our National Mammal: Bad Omen for the Species?

We now have a national mammal, and it’s Bison bison. On Monday, May 9, 2016, President Obama signed the National Bison Legacy Act, honoring American bison...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: River Set on Fire in an Area with Fracking

A picture is worth a thousand words—or at least that’s the idea behind the actions of Jeremy Buckingham, a Greens Party member of the Australian Parliament....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

What Size Wilderness?

Scarface is dead. Otherwise known as Bear No. 211, the Yellowstone National Park bruin was shot and killed just outside the park in Gallatin National Forest...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Listen, and You Might Actually Hear Climate Change

The image of a polar bear stranded on an ice floe. Herds of thousands of walruses hauled out on land, deprived of their sunning platforms of choice: sea ice....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: “The Messenger” Movie’s Memo about Songbirds

Imagine a world without birdsong. That’s the scenario a new documentary, titled The Messenger, wants you to envision, because it could actually happen sooner...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Eco-Avengers: Just Monkeywrenching or Ecoterrorism?

When timber framer Will Elwell heard that a natural gas pipeline was going to run through his town of Ashfield, Massachusetts, he decided to take action by...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Recreation vs. Conservation in National Parks: Will Enjoyment Equal Support?

When President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service on August 25, 1916, I doubt he anticipated that one of the statute’s words...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Watching the Clouds Go By

There’s a classic, late 1950s, Charles M. Schulz Peanuts cartoon about watching the clouds. In it, Charlie Brown, Linus and Lucy are lying on a little hill,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Hidden from Headlines: Climate Change News

Although ostriches don’t really bury their heads in the sand, it appears that we humans do—at least when it comes to climate change. According to a new report...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Clouds Can Help Find Threatened and Endangered Species

Cloud-gazing is, perhaps, a lost pastime. Before the Internet grabbed their attentions and took up most of their time, children would lie back on a summer day...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Watch as Elephants “Check In” at a Lodge in Zambia

The saying goes you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But what about elephants? When the builders of a five-star lodge in Zambia constructed their hotel over...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change and the Astronaut: the Endgame

If you got the news that, best-case scenario, you only had 12 to 18 months to live, I’m guessing you might quit your job and spend your final days traveling,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Protecting Nature’s Cleanup Crews, the Vultures

Because of many, current cultural biases around the world, vultures don’t immediately bring up in us feelings of empathy and likability. But they should....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Missing Winter: the Iditarod and the American Birkebeiner

In January 1925, the children of Nome, Alaska, were dying. They were suffering from diphtheria. The town’s only physician, Dr. Curtis Welch, feared the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: the Interrelated and Networked Earth

Environmental philosopher and early national park advocate John Muir wrote in his 1911 book, My First Summer in the Sierra, “When we try to pick out anything...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Penguins, the 2016 Oscar Awards and World Wildlife Day

Last night, Leonardo DiCaprio accepted his first Best Actor Oscar award. He used his moment at the podium to remind us about the planet’s most urgent threat:...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Vanquished Vultures and Criminal Coyotes: Underappreciated Wildlife

Poaching has pushed species of elephants and rhinos to the brink of extinction. Poachers are also bringing another type of animal to the edge of existence,...

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