My goodness, I love Flagstaff. The location, the people, the brewery, the closeness to everything Grand.
Here’s another reason. The Arizona Republic reports:
More than 265 teenagers from 44 U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces will meet at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff from Monday to Aug. 3 to participate as finalists in North America’s largest high-school environmental-education competition: the 2008 Canon Envirothon.
Teams will be tested on knowledge of soils and land use, aquatic ecology, forestry, wildlife, and a current environmental issue. This year’s current-issue topic for the competition is “Recreational Impacts on Natural Resources.” Students will analyze long-term and short-term environmental, …read more

It may seem like birds and bees have plenty of places to call home but consider how much habitat we take from them when we change and development the landscape. Picture the perfect meadow of sunny summer days and likely little sunlit moths, butterflies and bees are floating and dancing above it. There’s no reason why you can recreate this kind of perfect tiny critter habitat in your garden and the birds and bees will thank you.
Here in Germany I often see “habitats” integrated into agricultural land. For instance, farmers get an incentive if they plant wildflowers along the edge …read more

Wildlife doesn’t stay in one place and when creatures migrate they are increasingly boxed in by highways, cities, developments and other human built obstacles.
There is a solution that is catching on: wildlife bridges.
And recently, towns near Thoreau’s beloved Walden Woods have proposed building a $2-3 million overpass that would give wildlife safe passage over Route 2 in Massachusetts.
The Christian Science Monitor has the scoop from Concord, MA, on the proposed project:
The passage, a rarity in the United States, will be covered with earth and planted with native trees and grasses, providing a scenic footbridge for humans by day and an …read more