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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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Great Migration of the Sandhill Crane

Each spring, more than 500,000 sandhill cranes come together on a narrow stretch of the Platte River in central Nebraska, as they have for thousands of years....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Remedy for Deforestation: Raven Replanters

Corvids—a family of birds that includes crows, jays, magpies, nutcrackers and ravens—are smart animals. They can make tools, recognize individual human faces...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty: Will It Survive Another 100 Years?

On December 10, 2015, an 18-year-old southeastern Texas man shot two whooping cranes in a rural area located about 18 miles west of Beaumont, Texas. He said...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Conservation Canines in Action

Last week, you read about shelter dogs that are finding employment—and a new lease on life—as conservation officers in the University of Washington’s...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

By 2018, High-Speed Internet Service Will Be in Every National Park

This year, the National Park Service (NPS) is celebrating its centennial, and there are numerous plans and scheduled activities to encourage more Americans to...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Dogs May Be Our Best Conservation Aids

Radio collars, GPS tracking devices and remote-controlled drones—when it comes to monitoring wildlife, it’s easy to get caught up in high-tech devices. It...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in Space

Last week, English musician David Bowie died at the young age of 69. Whatever you think of his music, he was widely regarded as an innovator, known for the...

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