Bruce Smith
- Jun 20
- 1 min
Spillover: Emerging Disease Threats
A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature in April discussed how interactions between people and animals are at the heart of...
Bruce Smith
- Jun 10
- 1 min
Birds in a Tailspin
Over the seven years we've lived outside of Bozeman, Montana, the change we've noticed is dramatic. We just don't see the birds we used...
Bruce Smith
- Jun 6
- 1 min
Rights of Nature
Following on my March 7th post about the newly enacted law in Panama, the highest court in India has likewise ruled that "Mother Nature "...
Bruce Smith
- May 29
- 1 min
Covid in Mink
This New York Times article summarizes the complexity of the human-wildlife disease interface. Mink farms in the US, as in the...
Bruce Smith
- May 25
- 1 min
New and improved
Hello to all of you who subscribe to my wildlife/science/author blog. I've been away rebuilding my website and companion blog. That's...
Bruce Smith
- Mar 31
- 1 min
Covid and Wildlife
Following on my earlier posts in January and February about the human-wildlife connection of Covid-19, this link accesses a half hour...
Bruce Smith
- Mar 30
- 1 min
Elk Feedgrounds and CWD
This Washington Post article brings some national attention to one of the foremost problems of congregating and feeding wild elk (and...
Bruce Smith
- Mar 30
- 1 min
Change a comin’
To all of you who’ve subscribed to Bruce’s Blog but have not received email notifications of new posts in recent months, I’m deeply...
Bruce Smith
- Mar 7
- 1 min
Nature’s Rights
Panama’s president, Laurentino Cortizo, signed into law far-reaching protections for the natural world last week. The legislation, which...
Bruce Smith
- Mar 4
- 1 min
Life on the Rocks
In a continuing effort to build a following for conservation of mountain goats, this podcast interview with Exo Mountain Gear aired...
Bruce Smith
- Feb 21
- 1 min
Biodiversity and Disease Spillover
In a recent post, I discussed how humans have been infecting free-roaming wildlife and zoo animals with Covid 19. These are cases of a...
Bruce Smith
- Feb 4
- 1 min
Legend Keepers receives awards
It’s been 5 months since my debut novel, Legend Keepers: The Chosen One, was released. As a writer who had never published fiction...
Bruce Smith
- Jan 14
- 2 min
Covid and the Human-Wildlife Interface
A variety of zoo animals are becoming infected by Covid19. Some are dying from the disease. Although we can’t be certain, it seems likely...
Bruce Smith
- Dec 28, 2021
- 1 min
The Passing of a Giant
By now you may have heard that over the past 2 days, the world has lost 2 men each of whom were luminaries in their fields: Archbishop...
Bruce Smith
- Nov 25, 2021
- 1 min
Two Turkey Day
It’s Thanksgiving Day, a truly American tradition, and we’re all settling in for hams, roast elk, and of course turkey with all the...
Bruce Smith
- Nov 13, 2021
- 1 min
Moose on the Loose
Fall must be the time for road trips (or perhaps in the case of this moose, to seek a mate). This short video shows an efficient...
Bruce Smith
- Nov 4, 2021
- 1 min
Nature Documentary
A heads up about an upcoming Nature special televised on PBS next week. Born in the Rockies airs at 7 pm on November 10 and the second...
Bruce Smith
- Nov 1, 2021
- 1 min
Chronic Wasting Disease Chugs On
I haven’t posted about CWD for some time. This article in the Montana Free Press prompted me to write a brief update. In my home state of...
Bruce Smith
- Oct 10, 2021
- 1 min
Legend Keepers event
Legend Keepers: The Chosen One has now been on bookshelves and for sale at online websites for over a month. Unlike my previous books,...
Bruce Smith
- Aug 27, 2021
- 1 min
What do we owe wildlife?
As the article in this link details, the West’s megadrought is threatening wildlife in many ways: lack of water to drink, metabolic...