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How the Clean Water Act Protects the River of Grass
“The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades of...
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BP Wants to Get Let Off the Hook? Are We Talking About the Same BP?
NWF Staff PhotoThere are reports out that BP is HIGHLY OFFENDED that the Justice Department might ask it to pay a settlement for the Gulf oil disaster of … just $18 billion. That’s less than half of...
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Thank You, Clean Water Act, for Our Fishable Waters!
Forty years ago, Ohio’s Cuyahoga River was in flames and Lake Erie was a biological wasteland. Many of the nation’s rivers were little more than open sewers. On October 18, 1972, a bi-partisan...
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Restoring Buffalo to their Home on the Range
Yesterday, I drove a thousand miles across the Great Plains and saw not a single buffalo. I did see domestic cows and sheep, coal-fired power plants and wind farms, miles of power lines and fences. I...
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Let’s Talk Turkey: The History of a Wild Icon in America
The turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is one of wildlife conservation’s greatest success stories. Unlike the accomplishment of cooking up a delicious stuffed turkey for Thanksgiving, this success story is...
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The Push for Oil Shale: News Ripped from Last Century’s Headlines
There’s a saying in Colorado about the so-far-fruitless effort to tap the “Saudi Arabia” of oil shale in the region: “Oil shale: It’s the energy of the future… and always will be.” As documented by the...
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NWF Book Club: A River Lost
This Month’s Book: A River Lost “Your Power is Turning Our Darkness to Dawn…” A River Lost: The Life and Death of the ColumbiaWe hope you’ve had time to check out “A River Lost: The Life and Death of...
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Drought in the Rockies, Plains Taking Toll on Fish and Wildlife
Colorado’s Blue River. Photo by Lew CarpenterThe drought persists in the Rocky Mountain West and it’s not just the ski slopes that look rough. Fish and wildlife are feeling the effects: Sagebrush and...
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Why Owls Are So Hoot Right Now – #Hoot2Give
Have you heard? OWLS are so HOOT right now! That’s why we’re in caHOOTS with craigconnects and craiglist’s Craig Newmark to celebrate these amazing creatures. Each time you use the hashtag #Hoot2Give...
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Arizona Mine Threatens North America’s Only Jaguar
There is only one Jaguar in the entire United States, which explains why it took sportsman Jack Childs five years using ten different motion sensor trail cameras to get a single picture of one of the...
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1,000 Days Late and Billions of Dollars Short
Tomorrow marks one thousand days since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, spewing millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico over 87 days. The oil spill devastated the Gulf’s...
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NWF Urges Justices to Maintain Florida Wetlands Protections
This week the U.S. Supreme Court hears another case challenging protections for wetlands: Koontz v. Saint John’s River Water Management District. This challenge, brought by the Pacific Legal Foundation...
View ArticleUpdates to 2013 Green Inaugural Ball Lineup and Attendees
Nicholas David to perform at 2013 Green Ball We’re thrilled to announce that The Voice’s Nicholas David will join our lineup of musical performers at the 2013 Green Inaugural Ball. The...
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Inauguration Renews Hope for Secure Climate Future
President Obama arrives for his Second Inaugural (photo by Chris Moody/Yahoo News)President Barack Obama delivered his second inaugural address today, making a strong case for continued action to cut...
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Stop the New Madrid Levee to Protect Mississippi River Wildlife!
The endangered interior least tern can be spotted along the Mississippi River in the New Madrid Floodway. (USFWS Endangered Species/Flickr)Meet the endangered interior least tern. These quirky, darting...
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Community in the Green Ball Kitchen
Guest post by Shelley Cohen When planning an event the scale of the 2013 Green Inaugural Ball, it is easy to lose sight of what is truly important and why all of these amazing green groups have come...
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10 Things You May Not Know About Polar Bears
In celebration of International Polar Bear Day, here are 10 things you may not know about the Arctic’s Great White Bear. For more information on these incredible animals visit NWF.org/polarbears Spread...
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Teaming With Wildlife Fights for Wildlife Conservation Funding
How could you not want to protect this?Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to be part of an eloquently chaotic event known as a fly-in, compounded by the ‘snowquester,’ an unfortunate combination...
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Molly Ringwald Celebrates National Wildlife Week on Today Show
Actress Molly Ringwald guest-hosted the fourth hour of The Today Show this morning with Hoda Kotb. I grew up in the ’80s watching her in films such as Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, so when I...
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Weekly News Roundup – March 29, 2013
Want to know what National Wildlife Federation was up to this week? Here is a recap of the week’s NWF news: New guide addresses parents’ weather-related concerns around letting kids enjoy outdoor...
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