In July, the Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan was officially listed as threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), 14 years after the Center for ...

Beartooth Plateau, which sits at an altitude of over 10,000 feet (3,000 meters), is a barren, tundra-like landscape ... "We don't think about how dynamic that alpine ecosystem has been through ...

The remains of an ancient forest have been discovered in a popular hiking area of the Rocky Mountains. Surrounded by backcountry hiking trails, the Beartooth plateau is a frozen tundra that sits at ...

Glenn Elzinga has had zero wolf attacks on his cattle in a decade. He says his success lies in living with wolves "in a ...

This transformed what was a high mountain tree-filled landscape into the alpine tundra there today ... melted snow could lead to changes in the plants and animals that live in the valleys ...

With ecosystems that range from the prairie grassland to the alpine tundra, the state has more biomes – a geographical area characterized by its diversity of plants, climate and wildlife ...

from coastal areas to mountains and the Arctic tundra. Among these are Arctic wildflowers like Arctic Willow, Moss Campion, Sedum, draba, Svalbard poppy, Arctic Chickweed, Snow Buttercup, and Tufted ...

Most of these grasslands contain fragile tundra-like environments which are seriously ... distribution mapping on the Tibetan Plateau. 2. Response of alpine vegetation, as a single species or plant ...

Alpine plants, fragile and adapted to live in a limited ecosystem, may be the canary in the coal mine of climate change.