Articles for tag: coyote habitat, ecosystem recovery, fire ecology, wildfires and wildlife, wildlife adaptation

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Wildfires Create New Habitats for Coyotes

Suhail Ahmed

The ground is still warm, the air sharp with smoke, and yet the landscape is already changing. Charred trunks sketch black lines across a sky that suddenly feels too wide, while thread the new openness like gray commas in a sentence that’s being rewritten. Across North America’s fire-prone regions, burns are not the end of ...

How Bison Herds Are Restoring the Great Plains

How Bison Herds Are Restoring the Great Plains

Andrew Alpin

Once nearly vanished from our continent, these massive mammals are proving to be nature’s ultimate engineers. You might think their story ended tragically in the 1800s when hunters reduced their numbers from tens of millions to just a few hundred survivors. But today, something remarkable is happening across America’s heartland. The return of bison isn’t ...