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The foothills of the northern Rockies are littered with abandoned homesteads. This is along one of my favorite moose haunts in the Pintlar Mountains where I radio-collared wolverines back in the day. Note the dead and dying pine trees, killed by beetles whose laraval stage is no longer limited by [...]

This week’s photos capture the extremes of early May in the Northern Rockies which is characterized simply as a battle between winter and summer. This pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator) wards off the morning’s freezing river fog by eating the remains of last years fruit. This Sylvan hairstreak (Satyrium sylvinus), with [...]

This week we shot an interview with the preeminent sage grouse ecologist, Dave Naugle, who was intimately involved with the recent hearings in DC which found the sage grouse is indeed warranted for listing under the Endangered Species Act. Unfortunately the listing was precluded, however, due to funding. Our interview [...]

We just received word that our film Disturbance has been nominated for an Emmy! Regardless of if we win, this is a HUGE honor! You can watch the full piece here.

The end of April brings frigid mornings which usually give way to enough warmth to melt the drifted snow. The first sage thrashers perch atop the tallest sage and fill the dawn with endless melodies. From the obscurity of the low sage comes a mysterious thumping and popping, and we [...]

Far-roaming animals such as grizzlies, lynx, and wolverine almost inevitably run into obstacles that impede large movements such as residential development, extractive industrial activity, and other anthropogenic gaps in habitat. One impediment to large landscape movements is the incredibly dense web of roads that blankets the landscape. Of those species [...]

The battle between winter and summer is favoring summer right now. The snowmelt from the Bitterroot Mountains is roaring down each and every canyon, and icicles are beginning to give way to warm sunlight. While old, haggard, overwintering butterflies have been aloft for weeks, the first new butterflies of the [...]

The following map shows the extent of Conservation Media’s reach in its first three months of online existence. We are quite pleased with ourselves, to be honest. Each red dot on the map below shows not individuals but cities where people are logging on to consume Conservation Media’s content. You [...]

Conservation Media just returned from a scouting trip to Hawaii in preparation for a film about feral cats overtaking the islands and contributing to the extinction of the 70 bird species that disappeared this century, not to mention the impact of goats, cattle, and mongooses. Wow. This trip was a [...]

This article, written by Christopher Cokinos, originally appeared in the Opinion section of the L.A. Times. Since it makes several great points, and deals with conservation and media, we felt it a perfect repost for the CM site. You can read the original post here. Enjoy… CLIMATE SCIENTISTS COULD LEARN [...]