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This is how you save a river: A lawsuit, a streamkeeper and 80 tons of gravel
A college community decided a dried creek filled with wrecked cars should instead be home to salmon, trout, beavers, eagles and bears.
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Amanda Royal
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Hopeful headlines: Saving rivers, wetlands, sturgeon, gorillas, butterflies, puffins, bees and clean energy
Humans dam it like beavers; the environment logs court wins; sturgeon rebound on the East Coast; four gorillas make it back to the wild; a tiny…
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Amanda Royal
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Lost salmon turn wild in restored stream
Plus, hopeful headlines on renewable energy, frogs, sea lions, fish, big trees and rivers from around the globe.
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Amanda Royal
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Bring down the dams!
California’s Eel River will soon flow free. We can fix past mistakes and revive wetlands and rivers. Shall we have a dam, dike and culvert-dismantling…
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Amanda Royal
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The ecologist who dared love Yosemite's frogs
Once called the "antichrist of trout," Roland Knapp has traversed the High Sierra for 30 years to save its native frog. Now, birds, snakes and bears are…
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Amanda Royal
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Turning toward the storm in 2025
Earth Hope year-in-review: Condors, wildfire, rivers, sea otters, bison, conservation voters and pocket forests. Plus, bobcats ... because bobcats…
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Amanda Royal
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How one woman and a tiny ocean refuge helped sea otters escape extinction
From "extinct" to "maximum carrying capacity," a staunch mayor and her 11-acre refuge for abalone changed the trajectory of a species that once dwindled…
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Amanda Royal
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Wolves now prowl near Lake Tahoe and across Greece
A European organization aims to "facilitate wolf and human coexistence." In the U.S., the apex predators are spreading through California, but…
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Amanda Royal
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Bathing in gentle bugs at the top of the world
During an excursion to a high-altitude meadow, I found myself admiring the small things as well as the big. Plus, some thoughts on beavers and…
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Amanda Royal
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This is how you save a river: A lawsuit, a streamkeeper and 80 tons of gravel
A college community decided a dried creek filled with wrecked cars should instead be home to salmon, trout, beavers, eagles and bears.
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Amanda Royal
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Tahoe's sandhill cranes show wetland restoration is working
Connecting the dots on why a threatened, marsh-loving bird might choose a region that has spent $3 billion in four decades on its environment
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Amanda Royal
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How paying farmers saved the tricolored blackbird
Show me the money: Market-based solutions are key components of the conservation toolbox.
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Amanda Royal
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