A recent national news program posed the question, "Will the residents of Kivalina, Alaska be the first climate change refugees in the U.S.?" The Inupiat Eskimo village on the west coast of Alaska is one of many communities facing challenges due to sea level rise and rapidly warming temperatures in the Arctic. Coping with these challenges can be difficult for remote villages that may not understand the potential threats they face.

The North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NALCC) is a coordinated network of natural resource managers and partners in the Northeast Region. The NALCC Priority Science Program invests in landscape conservation by leveraging the regional expertise and funding resources to best understand and protect the natural resources shared across the region.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced that beginning on September 1^st, they will be accepting applications for working grasslands to be incorporated into the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), according to the Wildlife Management Institute.

The Boone and Crockett Club recently published a trilogy of journals by Jack Ward Thomas, who served as chief of the U.S. Forest Service from 1993-96. Thomas' memoirs offer a rare, real-time peek behind the curtain of conservation leadership during a turbulent period marked by conflicts over spotted owl habitat, old-growth timber and the deaths of 14 wildland firefighters in 1994.

The extraction of natural gas from shale formations in Appalachia has become a contentious political and environmental issue partially due to concerns over habitat loss and the fragmentation and degradation of wildlife habitat. However to date, no study has examined the effects of Marcellus shale gas development on avian populations. Researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Penn State University are developing new models to evaluate the impacts of this development on bird populations in the region.