Conservation without Conflict has released its 2024 Summit Report. This summit brought together representatives from different private and public organizations, all working toward the same goal: to improve teamwork in conservation and build long-lasting trust and partnership across the nation. The success of the Coalition's summit can be measured by the direct feedback it received from attendees and the establishment of future priorities.

Like many Americans, Joe Arterburn’s money doesn’t go as far as it used to. On the one hand, it’s being whittled away by inflation. On the other hand, Arterburn is spending a disproportionate share of it on his Nebraska state property taxes, which are going up as property values rise.

The older I get, the smaller this big blue marble we call earth seems to become. I suspect if you are inquisitive at all, you’re pondering what experience I might recently have had that could possibly have prompted that sentiment. I recently returned from the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC) conference in Cascais, Portugal. Not only was it my first time attending the CIC, it was also my first trip to Europe.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit is leveraging high performance computing resources at the University of Arkansas and through the Google Search Engine to quantify the influence of hydrology, water temperature, and landscape change on fish and aquatic macroinvertebrates. There is a great opportunity to develop and expand this approach to address important natural resource questions at local, regional, and national scales.