In this #FurriendlyFriday, we have a black bear responding to recreation noises. In one of our studies, we found that black bears were second to elk in their sensitivity to hearing recreation noises. They tended to flee or turn around to avoid going closer to the sound, like the bear in this video.

New research maps future of freshwater fish habitat conservation A new study conducted across Alaska demonstrates how higher resolution digital elevation data are being used to reveal previously unmapped rivers, streams and habitat connectivity that are essential f...

Did you know some waterways haven't been mapped yet? This new frontier, with contributions from The Wilderness Society's Jason Leppi, is out in Scientific Reports!

www.wilderness.org/articles/pre...

Are you a graduate student conducting visionary research on the establishment, protection, management, and/or conservation of public lands? If so, take a look at The Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship!

Please share!
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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Here's a curious cougar for this #FurriendlyFriday. I studied a population of cougars between L.A. and San Diego for my PhD and will forever have a soft spot for these cats

A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century Around 6 a.m. Saturday, the 3-year-old female arrived in the mountains north of Santa Clarita, as tracked by a GPS collar.

I love seeing stories like these. This wolf that traveled 370 miles, that cougar that went from SD to CT, the mule deer that migrated 242 miles. It speaks to the resilience of wildlife and their Olympian-like capabilities- if we just give the space for them to roam

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The landscape of no worries? Increased recreation exposure decreases the landscape of human fear in wildlife Recreation's expanding footprint increasingly overlaps habitats once considered refuges from human disturbance. Yet our ability to predict wildlife re…

With the increase of recreation on public lands, there is an increasing need for data on how recreation affects wildlife. We ask whether wildlife responses to recreation depended on previous exposure to recreation

Paper, led by @markdittmer.bsky.social here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yippie! Congrats, Gavin!

We just had a lab meeting a few weeks ago about using AI in ecology. We discussed the use of AI and adherence with scientific norms. We also discussed the ecological impacts of its use. This article would have a been a great additional read! 👇🏻

Please have an #elk and her calf in a stellar field of arrowleaf balsamroot for this week’s #FurriendlyFriday

We all need a little more levity. So, let's start a Furriendly Friday. I'll be using photos and videos from wildlife studies I have done throughout the years. Here's a #grizzly from one of our #RecreationEcology surveys. #FurriendlyFriday

Recreation sounds on Bridger-Teton National Forest contribute to habitat loss, research says At several sites across the Bridger-Teton National Forest, game cameras and speakers are playing noises associated with recreation and capturing how wildlife respond to them.

So fun to get some more coverage of our @mditmer.bsky.social recreation/sound ecology work in the Jackson Hole News and Guide!
www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/environ...

We also simulated grizzly movement for different future scenarios and found increased road building and mining decreased functional connectivity for bears in this area. Maps provided can help inform grizzly bear management and conservation planning.

Analyzing movement revealed bears avoided crossing most human-associated features like roads -- even though many bears used areas along roadsides due to rich forage opportunities.

Very excited to share this paper led by my former postdoc, Eric Palm, and collaborated on with a stellar team of scientists
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@claytontlamb.bsky.social @talavgar.bsky.social @melaniedickie.bsky.social @jmnorthrup.bsky.social

Very excited to be a part of this work led by @mditmer.bsky.social and Heather Abernathy

Flattened, like one of your pancakes

Let's dive into this a bit. A short and very incomplete thread on US Forest Service research. 1/

Congrats, Rob! It’s well deserved!

A nice summary of our article out today in Science:

How organismal movement is critical to meeting global and local conservation goals

@camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk

www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/news/well-co...

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...

Really excited to share this new article from the lab.

We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management.

Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

You too, Rob!

We review the science of connectivity and how to better link that science with conservation and management. We transform the concept of 'well connected' from ambiguous to a scientifically grounded, and quantifiable concept that is ecologically and socially meaningful across biomes, taxa, and scales.

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I never thought I'd see my name in Science and I'm over the moon! Many thanks to Jedediah Brodie @fletcherecology.bsky.social and team. It is an honor to be a part of this!

Genetic connectivity of wolverines in western North America - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Genetic connectivity of wolverines in western North America

I'm very excited to share a new paper that used the largest wolverine genetic dataset ever assembled in North America to explore genetic connectivity of wolverines across western NA. Special congrats to lead authors C. Day, E. Landguth, and M. Sawaya
#wolverine #DNA

www.nature.com/articles/s41....

I’ll take -4