The Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama is currently 2,997 acres. I’m a big advocate for land preservation and am very happy to hear that this refuge could expand to eventually more than 200,000 acres - that’s 312 square miles! A proposal (once on page, scroll down) by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would allow [...]
Students from Spring Mills Elementary School in Highland, Michigan screened our new movie, First Snow in the Woods: The Movie. Spring Mills Elementary School is part of the Huron Valley School District. I took some quick video with my small pocket sized Flip video camera. Watch the video to see the children’s reaction to First [...]
At Carl R. Sams II Photography, Inc. we are concerned about wildlife, including black bears. Under the direction of Lynn Rogers, the Wildlife Research Institute has been conducting black bear research for over 40 years. Do you want to see how a black bear travels through her territory? This enlightening video shows Lily the black bear [...]
A massive urban wildlife study of the Chicago region will be launched by scientists at the Lincoln Park Zoo. I found this timely as just this morning my next door neighbors live trapped a woodchuck that’s been eating their flowers and scaring their cat. About the Massive Urban Wildlife Study After reading the article “Scientists to [...]
I read the article, “Pentagon Making Room for Wildlife at Military Bases“, today in The New York Times. The article points out that as residential development encroaches upon military bases, the Pentagon finds itself in the precarious position of managing habitat and preserving wildlife. “The military has a tremendous interest in keeping candidate species off the [...]
Interested in preserving wildlife? Enter a design competition to help save animals crossing Interstate 70 on Vail Pass in Colorado. According to the article “Can you design a bridge for wildlife on Vail Pass?” in the Vail Daily, a group of conservationists is trying to build momentum behind the idea of a wildlife crossing bridge [...]
