On Monday, May 6, 2013, 17 heavily armed poachers entered Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in the Central African Republic. They then proceeded to a large clearing known as Dzanga Bai, or “village of elephants,” where between 50 and 200 of the animals congregate daily to drink in the mineral salts found in the sands. The poachers [...]
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Behind The Scenes- Making of the Great Bear Stakeout
My involvement in the film The Great Bear Stakeout, which depicts the Grizzly’s struggle for survival in the wilderness of the Alaska Peninsula, is thus far, one of my career highlights. I actually don’t appear in this film that much, as I was mostly behind the scenes rigging up remote cameras, tracking wolves and missing [...]
Urban Animals: Wildlife Is Adapting to City Life
During the winter months, bald eagle watching is one of my favorite pastimes. In Wisconsin where I live, the raptors tend to hang out on the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers. Surprisingly, rather than head to the waterways’ wilds to indulge my hobby, I head to the cities on the banks. The eagles prefer the cities [...]
Bald Eagle Gets a New Beak
With their fierce, intense eyes, deadly claws, and hooked beaks, bald eagles have adorned flags and led armies into battle throughout the ages. The national emblem of the United States since 1782 — and a spiritual symbol for Native Americans for far longer — the bald eagle is the very embodiment of our ideas about [...]
Do Digital Devices Dampen Travel Desire?
The gift-giving-and-receiving season has been over for a few weeks now, and the chances that you were the recipient of at least one electronic gadget of some kind or another — such as a smartphone, laptop computer, or tablet — are good. You’re probably having fun discovering all the ways that your new device is [...]
Has Nature Disappeared from Children’s Books?
I used to think that some of the world’s best nature and travel books could be found in the children’s section of my local bookstore. On those dedicated shelves were tales of exotic islands (The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss); adventure on the seas (Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson); the beneficence of forests [...]
