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The question students will answer in this FACTivity is: What is the range of an animal?
FACTivity – There’s Snow Place Like Home
The question students will answer in this FACTivity is: What is the range of an animal?
The California gnatcatcher is a little bird with a big problem. Its habitat has been reduced 80 percent by people…
Fighting Fire with Fire: Protecting the Homes of People and Birds
The California gnatcatcher is a little bird with a big problem. Its habitat has been reduced 80 percent by people that are building homes and businesses in coastal southern California....
The California gnatcatcher is a little bird with a big problem. Its habitat has been reduced 80 percent by people…
Fighting Fire with Fire: Protecting the Homes of People and Birds (Spanish)
The California gnatcatcher is a little bird with a big problem. Its habitat has been reduced 80 percent by people that are building homes and businesses in coastal southern California....
In the Western United States, spotted knapweed is one of the most widely found nonnative plants. Spotted knapweed was brought to the United…
Goll-ly! Don’t Take a Knapweed! The Impact of Nonnative Plants and Animals on Deer Mice
In the Western United States, spotted knapweed is one of the most widely found nonnative plants. Spotted knapweed was brought to the United States from Eastern Europe in the early 1900s. To control the...
The scientists in this study were asked to determine the current status of urban forests in the United States.
Made in the Shade: The Current Situation and Possible Future of U.S. Urban Forests
The scientists in this study were asked to determine the current status of urban forests in the United States.
The scientists in this study were asked to determine the current status of urban forests in the United States.
Made in the Shade: The Current Situation and Possible Future of U.S. Urban Forests (Spanish)
The scientists in this study were asked to determine the current status of urban forests in the United States.
A naturalized species has two ranges. The first range is the one where the species lives in its native habitat.…
North of the Border: Are Nonnative Species Moving Northward As the Climate Changes?
A naturalized species has two ranges. The first range is the one where the species lives in its native habitat. The second range is the one where the species is...
Plague is an infectious disease that is transmitted to other mammals by fleas. Prairie dogs are particularly susceptible to plague.…
Prairie Dog Days: How Fleas Transmit the Plague and its Effects on Gunnison’s Prairie Dog
Plague is an infectious disease that is transmitted to other mammals by fleas. Prairie dogs are particularly susceptible to plague. The scientists in this study were interested in figuring out...
The scientists in this study were interested in knowing whether humans and other animals can help disturbed areas of land…
The Trees Have Gone Batty! How Bat Scat Helped Restore a Tropical Forest
The scientists in this study were interested in knowing whether humans and other animals can help disturbed areas of land to become healthy ecosystems again. A mining company in Brazil...
The scientists in this study were interested in knowing whether humans and other animals can help disturbed areas of land…
The Trees Have Gone Batty! How Bat Scat Helped Restore a Tropical Forest (Spanish)
The scientists in this study were interested in knowing whether humans and other animals can help disturbed areas of land to become healthy ecosystems again. A mining company in Brazil...
The northern spotted owl is an endangered species that needs old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest to live. Unfortunately, old-growth…
Who Gives a Hoot? Determining the Value of Owl Habitat
The northern spotted owl is an endangered species that needs old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest to live. Unfortunately, old-growth forests, like all forests, may catch fire and be damaged...
The northern spotted owl is an endangered species that needs old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest to live. Unfortunately, old-growth…
Who Gives a Hoot? Determining the Value of Owl Habitat (Spanish)
The northern spotted owl is an endangered species that needs old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest to live. Unfortunately, old-growth forests, like all forests, may catch fire and be damaged...