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News from The Wildlife Society’s 2021 virtual conference and the acceptance of the 2021 Aldo Leopold Memorial Award by Mike Phillips. For Mike’s interview go to time stamp 25:28 through 34:38.
Ted Turner launches the Turner Institute of Ecoagriculture.
The Turner Endangered Species Fund is proud to be aligned with such forward thinking efforts. Please see link to the article written by Todd Wilkinson for the Land Report. https://landreport.com/2021/09/ted-turner-launches-the-turner-institute-of-ecoagriculture/
A restored blowout penstemon plant in Nebraska.
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,...
A coyote carries its catch of the day on the Armendaris Ranch in southern New Mexico.
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,...
The wolf pups are well!
Six Mexican wolf pups still alive and well on the Ladder Ranch near the release site.
In This Wolf Man, There Are Enduring Echoes of Aldo.
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....
Regal fritillaries enjoying a meal of swamp milkweed nectar on a Sandhills wet meadow.
This butterfly is considered a sensitive species in Nebraska. The Turner organization is working to conserve and restore wetland and wet meadow habitats to benefit this and other species with prescribed fire, short duration grazing, and filling in drainage ditches...
TESF has helped rescue and relocate over 500 gopher tortoises from sandhill habitats under development in central Florida.
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...
Fieldwork indicates that everything is going as planned with the historic release of the Mexican wolves at the Ladder Ranch.
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...
News from The Wildlife Society’s 2021 virtual conference and the acceptance of the 2021 Aldo Leopold Memorial Award by Mike Phillips. For Mike’s interview go to time stamp 25:28 through 34:38.
Ted Turner launches the Turner Institute of Ecoagriculture.
The Turner Endangered Species Fund is proud to be aligned with such forward thinking efforts. Please see link to the article written by Todd Wilkinson for the Land Report. https://landreport.com/2021/09/ted-turner-launches-the-turner-institute-of-ecoagriculture/
A restored blowout penstemon plant in Nebraska.
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,...
A coyote carries its catch of the day on the Armendaris Ranch in southern New Mexico.
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,...
The wolf pups are well!
Six Mexican wolf pups still alive and well on the Ladder Ranch near the release site.
In This Wolf Man, There Are Enduring Echoes of Aldo.
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....
Regal fritillaries enjoying a meal of swamp milkweed nectar on a Sandhills wet meadow.
This butterfly is considered a sensitive species in Nebraska. The Turner organization is working to conserve and restore wetland and wet meadow habitats to benefit this and other species with prescribed fire, short duration grazing, and filling in drainage ditches...
TESF has helped rescue and relocate over 500 gopher tortoises from sandhill habitats under development in central Florida.
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...
Fieldwork indicates that everything is going as planned with the historic release of the Mexican wolves at the Ladder Ranch.
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...