Charismatic animals get all the love.

If you could monitor only 7 species for a region, which would you choose, in order to learn the most about the region's ecological health?

Here's why I ask...

Unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that the ivory-billed woodpecker was re-discovered, not extinct after all, in the swamps of Arkansas. But unless you happen to be a mollusk biologist you're probably not aware that two freshwater snails in Alabama were also recently re-discovered alive and well.

Bycatcher in the Eye

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Father José Andrés Tamayo Cortez guides the fight for Honduran forests

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Ill

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An interview with doomsaying author James Howard Kunstler

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Sue It, Don’t Spray It

Landmark Agent Orange case goes to federal court Did U.S. chemical companies commit war crimes by producing toxic dioxin-laced herbicide...

Bush EPA nominee Steve Johnson garners praise and sympathy

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An interview with risk-taking park ranger Jordan Fisher Smith, author of Nature Noir

If you had to guess which federal agents in the U.S. face the greater danger, who would you put your money on: the officers who wage the endless War on Drugs, or the rangers who patrol the green acres of the national parks? Well, it's the rangers. According to a 2001 study by the Bureau of Justice, nature's security guards are twice as likely to be assaulted on the job as agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration.