Data Stories
Exploring wildlife data from NatureServe and USFWS. Stories the numbers tell about the species we pursue and the landscapes they inhabit.
Mapping the Sacred: Critical Habitat in America
What 527 species and 803 critical habitat designations tell us about the creatures we've nearly lost.
Flyways and Faith: The Geography of Migration
Four flyways, thousands of miles, and the ancient rhythm that connects a duck hunter in Arkansas to a birder in Saskatchewan.
Ranks of Reverence: What Conservation Status Really Means
From G1 to G5, the strange, precise language scientists use to measure how close a species is to gone.
The Long Quiet: What Forest Silence Tells Us About Biodiversity
Acoustic ecology is teaching us to hear the difference between a healthy forest and a degraded one.
Water Beneath the Surface: Aquifer Depletion and the Fish That Depend on It
The invisible connections between groundwater, spring-fed streams, and the trout that cannot be seen.
The Edge Effect: Where Habitat Fragmentation Meets the Hunter
Roads, development, and agriculture are carving the forest into pieces, and the edges are where everything changes.
What the Count Shows: A Century of the Christmas Bird Count
For 125 years, ordinary people have counted birds every winter, and the data they gathered is a portrait of a changing continent.
Trout and Turbulence: Reading the Hydrology of Cold Water
Stream temperature and dissolved oxygen are the invisible boundaries of trout country, and the gauges are telling us they are moving.