Article by Tom Kaye, Executive Director and Senior Ecologist at Institute for Applied Ecology, and originally published on Oct. 9, 2017 on their website, www.appliedeco.org. “I got one!” Steve Cary calls through a thicket of seep willow in full bloom. He’s...
Photo by Charles Sterling The Bosque del Apache’s Festival of the Cranes is one of the most spectacular wildlife events in North America. Every year, thousands of cranes and other migratory birds flock to the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, located...
What we know – and some good news! During our recent Festival of the Cranes, we heard several questions and comments about the number of birds on the refuge. There seem to be fewer sandhill cranes at Bosque del Apache this season – is everything okay? I see lots of...
The Johnson-Su method, requires little manual labor, no turning and produces no odors. The compost end product has the consistency of clay when mature. It can be applied as an extract, mixed as a slurry to coat seeds that you intend to plant in large farming...
Water is vital to the success of a heavily managed wetland habitat like Bosque del Apache and refuge staff are now shifting their focus to new management techniques to conserve and more efficiently use what precious little the refuge has. In order to adequately inform...
