1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1089+ words) San Bernardino County has the strongest numerical case on this list. Its official Community Indicators program places 77% of the county in the North Desert Region and 17% in the East Desert Region. That leaves only a small share outside those two…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1142+ words) WorldAtlas The native fish of the American West have taken a brutal beating. A century of dams, water diversions, drought, and introduced species pushed dozens of them toward oblivion, and the region's trout, chub, and salmon are among the most…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (768+ words) WorldAtlas The big, bad wolf has an intimidating reputation, but by and large, North American grey wolves aren't aggressive to humans. That said, wolves in the United States have faced significant threats to their populations, including habitat loss and humans…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (616+ words) WorldAtlas Few animals say "American West" quite like a bull elk bugling across a frosty mountain meadow. Around a million of them roam North America today, and the vast majority live on public land, with national forests serving as their…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1458+ words) WorldAtlas The National Parks Conservation Association counts roughly 600 threatened and endangered species across the National Park System. A few exist inside one park and nowhere else, in populations small enough to count by hand. Seventy-seven Devils Hole pupfish were counted…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (710+ words) WorldAtlas A single mountain lion can range across hundreds of square miles of backcountry. One young male tracked by biologists covered more than 1,500 miles, wandering from the Black Hills of South Dakota all the way to Connecticut. Territories that large,…...