Ethan Linck

6 days ago | nationalobserver.com | Ethan Linck

Burgum's interest comes at a perilous time for the Endangered Species Act, which is currently in the crosshairs of the second Trump administration. A January executive order sought to resurrect the "God Squad," a committee empowered to overrule the law when species protections prevent development.

1 week ago | hcn.org | Ethan Linck |Gretchen King

What was the dire wolf? Like many species lost before living memory and known only from remains, the 1854 discovery of a jawbone from this extinct North American predator was more suggestion than revelation. “Certain naturalists may regard the fossil as an indication of a variety only of the Canis lupus,” or gray wolf, wrote paleontologist Joseph Leidy, describing what he tentatively called Canis primaevus.

Jul 13, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Ethan Linck |Carlos Daniel Cadena

AbstractGlobal inequality rooted in legacies of colonialism and uneven development can lead to systematic biases in scientific knowledge. In ecology and evolutionary biology, findings, funding and research effort are disproportionately concentrated at high latitudes while biological diversity is concentrated at low latitudes.

Jan 29, 2024 | ethanlinck.substack.com | Ethan Linck

On still September days in the Rockies you can almost hear winter approaching—a truck just out of sight down the highway, tinnitus in a sunbeam. The first snow on Blackmore fell on September 9th, leaving a web of white lines on cold ledges. On the night of September 22nd at least 8 inches fell in the Absarokas; more in the Beartooths, though I wasn’t there to see it.

Jul 17, 2023 | ethanlinck.substack.com | Ethan Linck

For as long as I can remember I have loved landscapes on the fault lines of here and there. Sometimes I have been lucky enough to live in one. The first thing I noticed about Santa Fe was that our yard was full of Great-tailed Grackles. It was January, and to my northern eyes it seemed like they shouldn’t be there. But there they were, calling like car alarms, slide whistles, ray guns.