Candice Gaukel Andrews

New Study Shows How Dogs Process Our Words. A Video Shows How They See Us.

Anyone who has lived with a dog at any time in his or her life knows that they are masters at reading us; they understand by the tone in our voices whether...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Best Conservation Christmas Gift: a Federal Duck Stamp

If you’ve got a wildlife and nature enthusiast on your holiday shopping list—and I’m sure you do if you’re reading this article—I have the perfect gift idea...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Traveler Story: Lost in Time in Yellowstone National Park

There are a few rare places in the world where time as a linear construct just doesn’t seem to make much sense; places where the past, present and even the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A New, High-Resolution Look at Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

We Earthlings are lucky. While other planets in our solar system are either blistering hot or bitterly cold, the surface of Earth has relatively mild and...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Tale of Two Turkeys—the North American Bird and a Eurasian Country

Native to the United States and Mexico, the turkey has become our traditional main course on Thanksgiving all across our nation. So, how did a strictly North...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Seeding the Earth: When We Lose an Animal, We Lose a Forest

When we hear news about the declining numbers—and even near-extinction—of some of the world’s largest animals, such as tigers and rhinos, we usually think...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Scouting the Skies and Combing the Beaches in the Galapagos Islands

Ever since the Galapagos Islands first appeared in an atlas in 1570, people have been curious about the archipelago and the unique animals and flora that...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Yellowstone National Park–Ebola Connection: Could It Help Protect More Natural Places?

Recently, when a drone crashed in Grand Prismatic Spring in Midway Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, it sparked a public debate about the use of such...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Red-Tailed Hawk and Bull Snake Mix-Up

Predator meeting prey is part of the circle of life in nature. All living organisms need nutrition to produce the energy required to run their systems....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals: Powerful Protections or Paper Tigers?

From the tiny monarch butterfly to the immense wildebeest of Africa, many of the world’s animal species take on great migrations. Those epic travels may...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Great Bear Rain Forest Rambles and Spirit Bear Sightings

Running 250 miles down the British Columbia, Canada, coast, the Great Bear Rain Forest is a wild expanse of western cedars, hemlocks and spruce trees. This 21...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

New UN Report on Climate Change: Only 50 PPM of Greenhouse Gases Now Stands between Us and Disaster

The United Nations’ report on climate change released on Sunday, November 2, 2014, predicted a gloomy future for the residents of planet Earth. It stated that...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video of Lil’ Drac: An Orphaned Baby Bat

Bram Stoker is probably to thank for our fascination with bats at this time every year. In 1897 when he penned Dracula, the story of a human vampire who could...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

National Parks Poster Project: Q & A with Artist Rob Decker

A photographer and graphic artist living in Nederland, Colorado, Rob Decker is currently working on creating WPA-style posters for all 59 of our national...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Nature Finally Talks Back—And It Has Some Tough Words for Us

I’m not sure when the conversation about keeping our air and water clean and conserving our natural resources and wildlife became such a political, polarizing...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: the Pronghorn Path, the First Federally Protected Wildlife Corridor

For nearly 6,000 years, pronghorn have made an annual migration from their summer range around the highlands of Grand Teton National Park to their wintering...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Counting Wild Tigers by 2016: Will It Help Save Them?

On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 13 countries that have wild tiger populations agreed to take part in a global census of the endangered big cats. The hope is...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Photos from a Polar Bear Travel Season

If, like me, you like to travel, there’s probably one particular place away from home that just seems to stick in your heart and head—the one spot where your...

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