Tag: defenders of wildlife

Do bears truly hibernate and sleep away the whole winter?? Learn more about torpor and what it means for bears during the cold winter months ❄️🐻💤

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Yawn As the days get. colder, it’s tempting to curl up for long winter naps.

Just as bears cozy up in their dens to hibernate during the cold winter months.

But are these hibernating bears truly sleeping the whole time?

Well, not so much…

After a period of increased eating to gain fat, bears enter a hibernation–like state known as torpor, in … Continue

The election only just happened and we already have bad news already coming from Washington, D.C.

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Bad news coming out of Washington, DC. President-elect Trump announced his intentions to nominate North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to lead the Department of Interior. This terrible decision will give authority of the nation’s public lands, wildlife and natural resources to a champion of oil and gas drilling.

After the President, the Secretary of the Interior has more power than anyone else in government over the nation’s public lands and natural resources. These … Continue

What is a refuge?

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The Red Wolf, California Condor, and Florida Panther are among the hundreds of imperiled species that rely on the National Wildlife Refuge System. There are over 570 refuges, with at least one in every state and territory.

The forests, wetlands, prairies, deserts, and marine depths of the Refuge System are managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service…and devoted to wildlife conservation. But refuges are threatened by special interests and development, mismanagement, and inadequate funding needed to save species on the edge of extinction.

For … Continue

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The U.S. Forest Service manages 154 national forests, 20 national grasslands, and 1 national prairie that offer stunning views and diverse wildlife habitats.

From eastern forests with brilliant fall foliage to old-growth forests in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest to rolling prairies, these are just a sampling of the diverse habitats in the National Forest System.

Over 450 threatened and endangered species exist on these lands, including the Canada Lynx who slinks silently through dense forests, the Marbled Murrelet flying back and forth from giant trees to the Pacific … Continue

What are public lands?

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Did you know there are four federal land systems? And one of them is the National System of Public Lands? It represents 10% of the U.S. land base and boasts some of this nation’s most iconic scenery yet most Americans have never heard of it.

Sometimes just referred to as the “Bureau of Land Management lands”s – or “BLM Lands’ for short,” this system is as diverse as it is broad stretching from the boreal forests of Alaska to the Chihuahuan desert and everywhere in … Continue