Christine Peterson

3 days ago | truthdig.com | Christine Peterson

The Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Nevada harbors four endangered species, including the Amargosa pupfish, a tough little fish that has been around since the Pleistocene. The Wyoming toad, which makes its home in southeast Wyoming’s Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge, is one of North America’s most endangered amphibians. And the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge protects one of the world’s largest onshore denning sites for polar bears.

1 week ago | outdoorlife.com | Christine Peterson

Millions of people flock to Western national parks every year for the chance to see elk, deer, pronghorn, grizzly bears, wolves, and more. Visitors bring their families and spend their money in neighboring communities. And like those seasonal visitors, most of the wildlife that summers in high-profile parks like Yellowstone and Grand Teton don’t stay year-round, either. They migrate outside park boundaries to escape deep snow and harsh winters.

3 weeks ago | truthdig.com | Christine Peterson

This story was originally published by High Country News. Anna Jones-Crabtree and her husband spend sunup to sundown — plus hours of time before and after — nurturing 20 crops through tight margins on their dryland organic farm in Montana. Federal grants have long helped ease those tight margins, enabling farmers like Jones-Crabtree to survive and even thrive despite droughts and fires, market swings and crop failures.

4 weeks ago | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Christine Peterson

Publication Date4-1-2024JournalAnnual Review of Statistics and Its ApplicationAbstractThe microbiome represents a hidden world of tiny organisms populating not only our surroundings but also our own bodies. By enabling comprehensive profiling of these invisible creatures, modern genomic sequencing tools have given us an unprecedented ability to characterize these populations and uncover their outsize impact on our environment and health.

1 month ago | hcn.org | Christine Peterson

Anna Jones-Crabtree and her husband spend sunup to sundown — plus hours of time before and after — nurturing 20 crops through tight margins on their dryland organic farm in Montana. Federal grants have long helped ease those tight margins, enabling farmers like Jones-Crabtree to survive and even thrive despite droughts and fires, market swings and crop failures.