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Exploring The Salamander Capital Of The World

On a recent trip to Tennessee, I lost count of how many people told me the same strange and unusual thing about Great Smoky Mountains National Park. If you stacked up all of the park’s salamanders against its roughly 1,900 black bears, the salamanders would weigh more. Or was it salamanders versus all of the mammals and birds, or even all the wildlife?

UPDATE | 2025 State Of The Birds Report Documents Continued Declines In Species

Sea ducks such as Common eiders, grassland birds such as Western meadowlarks and Lark buntings, and forest species such as Pinyon jays in the West and Bachman's sparrow in the East are among a wide variety of bird species that are in serious declines, according to the 2025 State of the Birds report.

USFWS To Keep Grizzlies Under Endangered Species Act Protection

Grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem will not lose their protections under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday, though the agency also proposed to clarify exactly where the bears enjoy those protections.

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