Bruce Smith
Oct 301 min read
Meet the Miniscule Flea Toad
Nature comes in all shapes and sizes. Vertebrates, for example, range from the 100-ton blue whale to this tiny, tiny flee toad newly...
Bruce Smith
Mar 141 min read
Frog and Friend?
This is no more than a curiosity, but it caught my eye because it seemed so strange (tells you something about me, I suppose). Look...
Bruce Smith
Dec 22, 20231 min read
Rudolph with your eyes so bright
Reindeer don't need Rudolph to find their way at night. Researchers found that these animals, called caribou in North America, see light...
Bruce Smith
Oct 21, 20231 min read
Toad Conservation
For years, a small, relatively unknown animal has fought off extinction on the high plains of southeast Wyoming. Thanks to recovery...
Bruce Smith
Jun 16, 20231 min read
Frogs in the Desert
With all the discouraging news we hear about loss of biodiversity and environmental health, we need stories of conservation successes. ...
Bruce Smith
May 15, 20231 min read
A Wilderness Icon
For those of you in the Bozeman, Montana area, this Thursday, May 18th, I'll be giving a presentation about Montana's mountain goats,...
Bruce Smith
May 7, 20231 min read
Rebalancing Land Management
The Bureau of Land Management, which manages more public land (245 million acres) than any other federal agency, may be on the cusp of...
Bruce Smith
Apr 20, 20231 min read
Celebrate the Planet!
This week is National Environmental Education Week. It culminates in Earth Day celebrations on April 22 -- another American idea...
Bruce Smith
Aug 5, 20221 min read
What? Me, a headache?
After my recent posts on the climate crisis, zoonotic disease, and the planet's loss of biodiversity, you'll likely welcome a lighter bit...
Bruce Smith
Jun 6, 20221 min read
Rights of Nature
Following on my March 7th post about the newly enacted law in Panama, the highest court in India has likewise ruled that "Mother Nature "...
Bruce Smith
May 24, 20221 min read
New and improved
Hello to all of you who subscribe to my wildlife/science/author blog. I've been away rebuilding my website and companion blog. That's...
Bruce Smith
Dec 28, 20211 min read
The Passing of a Giant
By now you may have heard that over the past 2 days, the world has lost 2 men each of whom were luminaries in their fields: Archbishop...
Bruce Smith
Nov 25, 20211 min read
Two Turkey Day
It’s Thanksgiving Day, a truly American tradition, and we’re all settling in for hams, roast elk, and of course turkey with all the...