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Report: Ecosystems already shifting under climate change
A warming world is reducing global biodiversity and threatening the provision of ecosystem services that people depend on, say scientists contributing to the report Technical Input to the 2013 National...
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Weather and corn prices implicated in pheasant hunting’s decline
There were fewer pheasants in the field this past hunting season, according to a report from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, and fewer pheasant hunters as well. Weather over the past five...
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More Americans hunt, fish, and enjoy wildlife-associated recreation
Thirty-eight percent of Americans over 16 years of age hunted, fished, or participated in some kind of wildlife-related activity in 2011, according to the quinquennial national survey issued by the...
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Extreme weather costs nation billions in 2012
Only 2011 brought more billion-dollar natural disasters to the U.S. than did 2012. 2012 was the warmest year on record for the contiguous United States, a full one degree Fahrenheit hotter than the...
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2012 continues trend of global warming, continental U.S. breaks records
The planet’s average temperature rose by a degree, compared to the mid-20th century baseline, to 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Although weather patterns cause yearly fluctuations, the trend is markedly...
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New data good news for native trout
Native brook trout. Photo, USDA Forest Service Testing the assumption that stream temperatures rise in correspondence with air temperatures, researchers from the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S....
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A degree or so above average: does it matter?
Ask the birds and the bees – and the frogs and the snakes. It is not only that last year’s temperature was four tenths of a degree higher than the year before, but that the increase is an average –...
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Looking back and looking forward from Winter 2013
Warm and wet described conditions across most of the contiguous U.S. during the winter season, December 2012-February 2013. A wet winter diminishes drought’s reach According to NOAA scientists, this...
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Volunteers build database of continental phenology
Sure seems like apple trees were blooming this time last year, or is that just a failure of memory? Was last year normal, or is this year? Are we experiencing customary annual fluctuations, or a trend...
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National strategy promotes natural resource resilience, adaptation and...
Just released, the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy is the first nationwide plan to help decision makers address the impacts of climate change on the nation’s natural...
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Loggers feel pinch of short winters in their wallets
More jack pines are cut as weather limits access to other species. Graphic: dnr.wi.gov Winter warming is reducing lumberjack access to New England forests, declare loggers who have worked outdoors in...
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Accords seek to regulate Arctic activities
With Arctic ice melting, fishing fleets around the globe are setting their sites on waters that have been ice-locked for 100,000 years. But before the newly accessible waters are opened to commercial...
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An ecosystem’s recovery may rely on a triumvirate of species
It’s a study of the intricate balance of nature. A man, 6″2″ tall, stands among willows near a river’s edge in Yellowstone Park. Photo: NPS The twentieth century disappearance of wolves in Yellowstone...
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Stories of addressing climate change presented at National Adaptation Forum
Among presentations at the National Climate Change Adaptation Forum April 2-4, 2013 were case studies of projects in different ecosystems that are addressing the effects of climate change. Short videos...
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Keystone species stabilize ecology in a changing climate
In a story special to Beyond Seasons’ End, the author of The Spine of the Continent, Mary Ellen Hannibal, uses the example of the wolf to explore how predators at the top of the food chain are...
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NWF report calls for action, commitment to conservation
What will be the effect of climate change on wildlife in the United States? The National Wildlife Federation looked at every region of the country to compile their report predicting how wildlife will...
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Agency combats climate-change threats to food sustainability
Cover crops, crop rotation and no-till practices can improve soil health, improve nutrient and water-use efficiency and boost yields while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Photo:...
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Sage-grouse Recovery Alternative considers climate-change impacts
Sage-grouse lek. Photo: NPSCiting sage-grouse as an umbrella species, the preservation of which implies the preservation of many other species that share its habitat, a group has formulated an...
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Transcend politics to address climate change, writer tells sportsmen
Outdoorsman, writer and Climate Hawks founder Todd Tanner In an article published in Outside Online, writer, hunting and fishing guide and founder of the nonprofit organization Conservation Hawks Todd...
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Hunters find fewer migrating elk in Wyoming backcountry
Over the past 20 years, the number of elk migrating between winter ranges in central Wyoming and summer ranges in Yellowstone National Park has declined. Falling pregnancy rates and increased predatory...
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