November 19, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Triangle Lake in northern Ontario
Credit: Jeff Wells
I wrote last week about our report we released titled "The Carbon the World Forgot", referring to the boreal forest, of course. You can read...
November 12, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Carbon-rich wetlands in the Northwest Territories
Credit: Chad Delany, Ducks Unlimited
November 11, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
In Maine, people don't eat puffins any more. Instead, thousands shell out good money for the chance to see one of the clown-faced birds from the rocking deck of a tour boat. But there was a time...
November 6, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Yaigojé Apaporis Park
Credit: Asociación de Capitanes IndÃgenas Yaigojé Apaporis
There was more good news from the Boreal's sister, the Amazon, recently. In late October, the government of...
November 3, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
This fall I have had the opportunity to visit two different Maine islands to look for Boreal migrant birds - Monhegan Island and Damariscove Island. Interestingly, these two islands were probably...
November 2, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
I recently recieved these photos of a group of Bohemian Waxwings from my colleage Larry Innes of the Canadian Boreal Initiative. You might recall some photos I posted last month that he took of the...
October 29, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Caribou are extremely sensitive to habitat fragmentation
Credit: Innu Nation
Just came across an interesting and useful report that was released on Monday by the U.N. Secretariat for the Convention...
October 28, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Yukon River
Credit: Nancy Turner
Reducing deforestation and managing forests sustainably are highly important parts of our fight against climate change, and also go a long way toward helping...
October 27, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Tuesday, October 27
Merrymeeting Audubon Presents
The Ivory-billed and the Boreal - Lessons and Legacies
Curtis Memorial Library,
Morrell Room, Brunswick, Maine 7:00 pm
Ornithologist Jeff Wells was a...
October 26, 2009 | Dr. Jeff Wells
Common Nighthawk
Credit: Tom Vezo
Every year as the hot and humid days of summer ease into the dry warm days of early fall, the nighthawks appear. In the eastern U.S. at that point in the evening...
