Island Press Field Notes

Wolves in Yellowstone. Photo by Will, used under Creative Commons licensing.

The crested duck is host to a mutation that can be lethal.

The recovery of black-footed ferrets is one of the success stories of conservation biology.

That might sound like a rather dry, technological subject, but it is, obviously, quite important in relation to wood production from forests. It’s also important to be able to calculate tree growth rates so we can estimate how fast forests can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it as carbon.