Our Wildest Dreams

“These are the seven wolves of the newly established Lamar Canyon Pack, which supplanted the Druid Peak Pack and roams much of Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley. The alpha female (referred to as ’06); two brothers, the smaller one is the alpha, both are black (754 and 755); and their four pups are cavorting in the Round  [ Read More ]

In a world of vanishing wildlife, especially megafauna, one gets accustomed to a steady stream of bad news. As much as it all weighs heavily on the heart and the soul, there is some degree of desensitization which occurs. It is, to be frank, expected, based off of the current trends in the world. Even  [ Read More ]

              In the waters of the Tasman Sea, between Australia and New Zealand, there is an all-too-rare, but extraordinary breath of hope on the sea-wind. One of the more striking examples of our world’s biodiversity, the Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis), colloquially known as the tree lobster,  [ Read More ]

This January Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar announced the formal creation of the “Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area”. This Refuge, which currently consists of a 10 acre land donation from the Nature Conservancy of Florida, will in its final form be a 150,000 acre complex north of Lake Okeechobee. Two thirds  [ Read More ]

Hello all. It has been some time since my last post on  the main page and if you’ve been checking back periodically for updates, that may give the impression that the site has been inactive. Well, this is not the case; I have been updating things in the inner territories of the site but those  [ Read More ]

It is with a heavy heart that I have come to learn of the latest casualty in the modern biodiversity crisis: the Vietnamese population of the Javan Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus). The good news is that the species itself is not yet wholly extinct. The bad news is that the Vietnamese population represented the last toehold  [ Read More ]

Hello everyone! This news is so big and so important, I had to share it in a main post. The 45 mile Elwha River of Washington’s vitally important Olympic National Park is going to run free once again! The largest dam removal in the entire history of the United States has begun. Both the 108-foot-tall  [ Read More ]

Well, we are halfway through the month of October, and things are now in full-gear. We are moved in to our new home in Albany, we’ve started our new jobs, and we’ve both started school and research; everything is going great! And that includes the website! More updates are finally in place, and with this  [ Read More ]

  Hello all! It’s been almost a month since my last post, but fear not, I have not been idle with the site. I have begun turning things on, plugging things in, and generally getting the site closer and closer to operational. First up and perhaps what you will notice first, I have added three  [ Read More ]

Hello all, This page is obviously still in its’ infancy, but I would like to take a moment to introduce myself and, more importantly, my website. My name is Aubrey Cloud, and I am a non-traditional undergraduate student majoring in Biology and Environmental Science. I have previously attended the Metropolitan State College of Denver (soon  [ Read More ]