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Ponderosa Pines Affected by Drought in New Mexico

Alder Fire in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

News items described and linked on this webpage are highlights of selected studies conducted and publications produced by USGS Science Center staff members in Region 7:  Upper Colorado Basin. Left click on news item titles or "Read Article" links to view the original news items.

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Charismatic Wildlife and the Charismatic Women who Study Them

Charismatic Wildlife and the Charismatic Women who Study Them

USGS celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by featuring five fascinating animals and five phenomenal female scientists who...

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USGS and partners publish the second in a series of structured science syntheses: the effects of culverts on stream habitat connectivity

USGS and partners publish the second in a series of structured science syntheses: the effects of culverts on stream habitat connectivity

USGS is working with federal land management agencies to develop a series of structured science syntheses to support analyses that agencies conduct to...

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Pesticides are likely impacting invertebrate life essential to our nation’s streams

Pesticides are likely impacting invertebrate life essential to our nation’s streams

A new nationwide study by USGS scientists provides additional scientific evidence that pesticides are likely negatively impacting aquatic invertebrate...

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FORT ecologist Ian Pearse organizes workshop to support monitoring of an endangered bumble bee.

FORT ecologist Ian Pearse organizes workshop to support monitoring of an endangered bumble bee.

FORT ecologist Ian Pearse organized a workshop with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (Jan 9-11) to develop a monitoring program for the endangered...

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Friday's Findings - January 12, 2024

Friday's Findings - January 12, 2024

Title:  Ancient human footprints in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

Speakers:  Kathleen Springer and Jeff Pigati, Research Geologists...

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New study from FORT social scientists and collaborators describes perceived constraints of the U.S. public to participating in wildlife-related recreation

New study from FORT social scientists and collaborators describes perceived constraints of the U.S. public to participating in wildlife-related recreation

A new paper out in the Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism describes the self-determined constraints of the U.S. public to participating in...

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New issue of National Parks magazine spotlights Jill Baron's decades-long research studies of air and water quality in Rocky Mountain National Park

New issue of National Parks magazine spotlights Jill Baron's decades-long research studies of air and water quality in Rocky Mountain National Park

The winter issue of National Parks, the magazine of the National Parks Conservation Association, has an article about Jill Baron written by Senior...

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Research Ecologist Jill Baron coauthors study finding no effect of road proximity on nitrogen deposition in a complex, mountainous terrain

Research Ecologist Jill Baron coauthors study finding no effect of road proximity on nitrogen deposition in a complex, mountainous terrain

Excess reactive nitrogen from vehicle emissions has the potential to negatively impact ecosystems, through increased soil acidification, biodiversity...

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FORT scientists develop density-habitat relationships and density distribution maps to guide management of 11 songbird species in the Intermountain West

FORT scientists develop density-habitat relationships and density distribution maps to guide management of 11 songbird species in the Intermountain West

FORT scientists Nicholas Van Lanen, Adrian Monroe, and Cameron Aldridge recently published population trends and density-habitat associations for 11...

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FORT geneticist Scott Cornman uses data mining to gain new insights into a mysterious virus infecting honey bees

FORT geneticist Scott Cornman uses data mining to gain new insights into a mysterious virus infecting honey bees

A new paper on an enigmatic giant virus of honey bees, Apis mellifera filamentous virus (AmFV), was recently authored by FORT geneticist (Robert)...

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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law helps fund new USGS facility at Colorado School of Mines, focused on energy and minerals research

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law helps fund new USGS facility at Colorado School of Mines, focused on energy and minerals research

Golden, Colo. — Representatives from the U.S. Geological Survey and Colorado School of Mines began a new chapter of their partnership today, breaking...

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