Tag: Moths
From otters to butterflies: How Minnesota became a pioneer in nongame wildlife conservation
By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva
In the late 1970s, when most wildlife conservation programs in the United States focused almost exclusively on game species, a quiet but historic shift began in Minnesota. It was here that one of the nation’s first state programs dedicated to protecting so-called nongame wildlife emerged from butterflies and bats to bald eagles and river otters. That story is now told in detail by Carrol Henderson in his new book, “A National Legacy: Fifty Years of Nongame Wildlife Conservation in Minnesota.”
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Environmental groups are fighting to preserve one of Michigan’s last prairies
Environmental groups are looking to raise $6 million to protect a key Michigan prairie from being developed. The Sibley Prairie, located in southeast Michigan, is a rare lakeplain prairie of 440 acres with a robust wetland ecosystem.
Trail Talk: chukar, harvesters and hawks
From an unusual bird on Wildlife Line to a black walnut in the Maitland Woods, every hike brings a new discovery.
Trail Talk: Butterflies, moths and caterpillars
HURON – On Tuesday, August 5, I joined 21 other Trompers at the Wawanosh Valley Conservation Area trails. Along the trail there is the best group of wildflowers I have ever seen, which is where I took a photo of the group. At 9:15 a.m. there was a hummingbird clearwing but only one butterfly in […]
Mexico EV Sales Report: It Turns Out, Official Data Has Been Underreporting Sales, and Mexico’s EV Market Is Further Ahead than We Expected!
When we started working on our reports for Mexico, we knew that the available data was limited to those companies that make up part of the Mexican Automotive Association. However, our analysis on model vs. aggregate sales data convinced us that the limitations were confined to model sales, and the … [continued]
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