After nearly two decades of devastating losses, Pennsylvania’s bat populations are showing remarkable signs of recovery. The story begins in 2006 when a mysterious white fungus started appearing on hibernating bats in caves across New York state. By 2009, this deadly disease had spread to Pennsylvania, triggering one of the most dramatic wildlife collapses ...
Picture this: Over forty years ago, ‘s rivers and streams fell eerily silent where once playful river otters thrived. These sleek aquatic acrobats had nearly vanished, wiped out by decades of unregulated hunting and habitat destruction. What happened next became one of North America’s most remarkable wildlife comeback stories. In the early eighties, when most ...
On a fog-laced dawn in Wisconsin, a white silhouette lifts off the marsh and writes a long, slow V against the sky – proof that one of North America’s rarest birds is not done with us yet. Whooping cranes, once teetering on the edge with only a few wild survivors, are steadily reclaiming their seasonal ...
