November 19, 2009
Leah Hazlett, Undaunted by Challenges, USU Scholar Pursues International Internship
As seasoned international scholars can attest, study and work abroad carry a fair share of challenges that can derail the best laid plans.  But Utah State University student Leah Hazlett offers a lesson in perseverance and a 'why not?' attitude in pursuing an educational and career-building...Click here for more

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November 16, 2009
Barrie Gilbert, Grizzly Details:  Salmon Collapse Could Be Bad News for Bears
For most of May Chris Darimont, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, poured liters of fermented cattle blood mixed with pureed rotten fish guts on 3,000 square kilometers of British Columbia's coastal...Click here for more

November 13, 2009
David Stoner, Back on the range:  Bighorn sheep get some help to survive on the Stanbury
Big game wildlife transplants are risky, costly and uncertain.  Some animals try to find their way home, others settle into their new digs and a few get eaten.  In the winter of 2005, state wildlife officials began a series of transplants that eventually would move 93 Rock Mountain bighorn sheep from...Click here for more

November 6, 2009
Joanna Endter-Wada Heads Study
Dr. Joanna Endter-Wada, associate professor of Environment and Society, heads a team of researchers whose case study of the Bear River Basin has been selected as a case study for presentation at the Ecological Society of America's first...Click here for more

November 5, 2009
Jack Schmidt, USU Scientist Featured in TV documentary 'Green River:  Divided Waters'
It's called the West's last wild river but the Green River, along with its major tributaries, is facing increasing development pressure.  Growing cities in Utah and Colorado are competing with downstream neighbors, including Las Vegas...Click here for more

November 3, 2009
Interview with Joseph Tainter on The Collapse of Complex Societies
Utah State University archaeologist Joseph Tainter's book, The Collapse of Complex Societies, has done much to shape my thinking about our contemporary predictament.  Excerpts from my following interview with Tainter were published earlier this year in...Click here for more