This endangered plant was restored on a Turner ranch by intentionally over grazing a small pasture in the Sandhills to promote blowouts in the sand dunes. Penstemon seed was then spread into the blowouts. The species is naturally an early colonizer of blowout habitat,...

Catfish and carp often become trapped in shallow drying pools along the Rio Grande due to fluctuating water levels caused by drought and climate change. The trapped fish are easy prey for many native predators including mountain lions, black bear, skunk, bobcat, fox,...

Journalist Todd Wilkinson interviews Mike Phillips on the honor of receiving the Aldo Leopold Memorial Award and his career in conservation for The Mountain Journal....

In collaboration with our dedicated partners – Saving Florida’s Gopher Tortoises and @Nokuse – we’ve helped rescue and relocate over 500 gopher tortoises from sandhill habitats under development in central Florida to secure Turner lands in northern Florida. These...

Wolves have visited the supplemental food caches that we established along with tubs of water with recent rains providing additional water. Both adults are out of the pen and restricting movements to the immediate area and at least two of the six pups have been...

The Aldo Leopold Memorial Award is the highest honor bestowed by The Wildlife Society.  Given Mike’s deep connection to TESF over the last 24 years, the award is yet another example that the organization operates at the highest level of fish and wildlife...

For the first time ever, Mexican wolves have been released on private land in the U.S., Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch, to advance recovery of the species.  The ranch offers an abundance of secure and high quality habitat and easy access to the vast public wildlands of the...

This endangered plant was restored on a Turner ranch by intentionally over grazing a small pasture in the Sandhills to promote blowouts in the sand dunes. Penstemon seed was then spread into the blowouts. The species is naturally an early colonizer of blowout habitat,...

Catfish and carp often become trapped in shallow drying pools along the Rio Grande due to fluctuating water levels caused by drought and climate change. The trapped fish are easy prey for many native predators including mountain lions, black bear, skunk, bobcat, fox,...

Journalist Todd Wilkinson interviews Mike Phillips on the honor of receiving the Aldo Leopold Memorial Award and his career in conservation for The Mountain Journal....

In collaboration with our dedicated partners – Saving Florida’s Gopher Tortoises and @Nokuse – we’ve helped rescue and relocate over 500 gopher tortoises from sandhill habitats under development in central Florida to secure Turner lands in northern Florida. These...

Wolves have visited the supplemental food caches that we established along with tubs of water with recent rains providing additional water. Both adults are out of the pen and restricting movements to the immediate area and at least two of the six pups have been...

The Aldo Leopold Memorial Award is the highest honor bestowed by The Wildlife Society.  Given Mike’s deep connection to TESF over the last 24 years, the award is yet another example that the organization operates at the highest level of fish and wildlife...

For the first time ever, Mexican wolves have been released on private land in the U.S., Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch, to advance recovery of the species.  The ranch offers an abundance of secure and high quality habitat and easy access to the vast public wildlands of the...