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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists did a field count of boreal toads, a state endangered species. Each toad caught was check for the chytrid fungus, which attacks amphibians by destroying their skin, disrupting their immune systems and causing heart failure as a way to assess the health of the boreal toad population. The biologists collect the toads eggs to be hatched to restock in locations in southwest Colorado to reestablish the population...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists did a field survey of boreal toads, a state endangered species, at Zimmerman Lake, Larimer County, CO. Each toad caught was check for the chytrid fungus, which attacks amphibians by destroying their skin, disrupting their immune systems and causing heart failure as a way to assess the health of the boreal toad population. The biologists collect the toads eggs to be hatched to restock in locations other locations...
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Black-footed ferret, a keystone species, release after an intense breeding program to bring the species back from the brink of extinction. Landowners who allow the ferrets to be released on their land make releases possible. As the ferrets hunt prairie dogs, releasing the ferrets help bring the grassland system back into harmony.
17) Being caribou
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Environmentalist Leanne Allison and wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer follow a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot, across 1,500 kilomters of rugged Arctic tundra, from Canada's central Yukon to coastal Alaska (the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) and back again.
Description
A documentary look at the efforts directed at the preservation of the Greenback Cutthroat trout.
Using computer animation and outdoor videography, this program tells the story of how the Greenbacks evolved and migrated to Colorado, why they declined and almost disappeared, and how the scientific recovery process works in restoring populations in the future. They became Colorado's official state fish in 1994.--From container.
19) American Arctic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Examines the wildlife of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and how it is impacted by climate change.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement-told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to save...
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