Bull Run Mountains Conservancy

Earth’s most prestigious engineer, the beaver (Castor canadensis), as no other mammal alters the shape of the landscape and is as...

As the world’s population has recently surpassed 7 billion, it seems to be a good time to review how that is even possible. At the turn...

The most diverse and most numerous life forms on land happen to live underneath our feet. As the great entomologist E.O. Wilson has written

Frogs provide a major transfer of invertebrate and plant energy to animals higher up the food web to many fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals

With all the fires occurring year after year on the western side of the continental United States, it seemed a good time to revisit an...

Over the years, I have shared this article in many forums including our newsletter. While I feel a little like I am running a “clip show”...

As the leaves continue to drop from the trees, the landscape seems to change from an ocean of green vegetation to one of grays and browns...