Conservation Science

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Ryan Carle

2012 Fellow
Ryan’s is interested in coupling applied ecology, habitat management, and policy to create effective management for threatened species and ecosystems. As Science Director for the environmental non-profit Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge, Ryan...
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Adrienne Leppold

2012 Fellow
Adrienne Jo Leppold (adrienne.j.leppold@maine.gov) is the state songbird specialist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maine in 2016, completing her dissertation on...
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Bringing Sustainability to Ranching Worldwide

Michael S. Stevens is the Co-Founder and Principal of Pioneer Mountain Group, an environmental consulting firm based in Hailey, Idaho. PMG provides a range of management, conservation, scientific and natural resource production and marketing services to clients including non-profit organizations, investment firms, and private landowners. The firm’s current projects are in the western United States, Latin America and Canada.
June 5, 2012
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Beal quoted in story about a Maine community's efforts to get rid of invasive green crabs

The prime culprit in all this is the green crab. And as Brian Beal explains, green crab populations can be hard to control. He's professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine in Machias. "Nobody really eats them and that's the problem," Beal says. "They're just so highly fecund, they have lots of eggs, there's no real predator that can keep them in check." Listen to the full story
June 5, 2012
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Johnson quoted on how California budget cuts hurt long battle against invasive weed threat

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June 1, 2012
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Reed's work on conservation development featured in High Country News

For millennia, Colorado's Yampa River Valley has followed the rhythms of wildlife mating and migration, the habits of elk and grouse and bear. The arrival of ranching in the 1880s altered the pattern a little, but radical change didn't occur until the last half of the 20th century. That's when the big ranches began to be broken up into small ranchettes and vacation-home lots, the kind of low-density exurban sprawl responsible for habitat fragmentation across the West.
May 30, 2012
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Lerman launches citizen science project to study nesting populations of common backyard songbirds

A citizen science project to study nesting populations of common backyard songbirds started recently as campus researchers began visiting the yards of 60 volunteer families across western Massachusetts for the "Neighborhood Nestwatch" project.
May 30, 2012
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Gartner and Donlan's candidate conservation banking program funded by Switzer featured on Co.Exist

Laws alone do not save wildlife. The Endangered Species Act (ESA), one of the most effective environmental policies written in the past century, has pulled dozens of species back from the brink of extinction and holds out a lifeline for many others.
May 28, 2012
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Shaw calls new set of studies showing climate change will double cost of conservation "wake-up call"

"This set of studies from around the world is a wake-up call," said Rebecca Shaw, a climate scientist and associate vice president for Environmental Defense Fund. "The truth is that we have been struggling to conserve the nature we depend on for clean air and clean water without climate change. These studies show it is going to get harder and more costly to conserve nature in the future.
May 25, 2012
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Wolf quoted in story on how climate change may leave many mammals homeless

Moreover, adds ecologist Shaye Wolf of the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco, this analysis doesn’t account for additional factors, such as whether a migrating species’ food will exist in its newfound home or whether the animal will confront new or more aggressive predators and competitors. Still, accounting for species dispersal impacts “represents an important new contribution to evaluating whether animals will be able to keep pace with climate change,” she says. Read the full story
May 24, 2012