Museum of Wildlife Fish Conservation Biology Content

The Science of Saving Salmon as Klamath Dams Come Down

Katherine E Kerlin — February 24, 2023 - 3:34pm

The world’s largest dam removal in history is slated for 2023. Led by Indigenous tribes in partnership with organizations, lawyers, scientists and activists, the project will remove four dams, clearing the way for the lower Klamath River to flow freely for the first time in more than a century.

Unprecedented Arctic Wildfires Fuel Climate Warming Cycle

Katherine E Kerlin — November 08, 2022 - 3:13pm

In the Arctic, climate change is turning carbon sinks into carbon sources as wildfires send stored carbon up in smoke, explains �ٺ��Ƶ polar ecologist.

Half the Earth Relatively Intact From Global Human Influence

Katherine E Kerlin — June 11, 2020 - 12:00pm

Roughly half of Earth’s ice-free land remains without significant human influence, according to a study from a team of international researchers led by the National Geographic Society and the University of California, Davis.

The study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, compared four recent global maps of the conversion of natural lands to anthropogenic land uses to reach its conclusions. The more impacted half of Earth’s lands includes cities, croplands, and places intensively ranched or mined.

Little Creek, Big Impact

Katherine E Kerlin — March 14, 2018 - 2:43pm

A small sliver of wildness is having a big impact on the birds, fish and wildlife near �ٺ��Ƶ. Birds at Putah Creek have more than doubled since water was restored to the creek in 2000. "The planet needs places like this," said �ٺ��Ƶ ecologist Melanie Truan.