Bruce Smith
- Mar 8
- 1 min
UN High Seas Treaty Reached
On the heels of last year's historic climate and biodiversity conservation agreements--multinational agreements to slow the climate's...
Bruce Smith
- Mar 3
- 1 min
The Climate Crisis is a Water Crisis
A n article published in The Proceedings of the National Academies of Science lays out a developing cycle resulting from increasing...
Bruce Smith
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Indigenous Peoples as Protectors
It's been said that forests are the lungs of the planet. Saving the Earth's tropical and temperate forests is an essential element in...
Bruce Smith
- Feb 2
- 1 min
Legend Keepers receives award
In the Feathered Quill national book awards competition, the second novel in the Legend Keepers series, The Partnership, won first place...
Bruce Smith
- Jan 30
- 1 min
Going, going, gone
The world's glaciers are frozen reservoirs of water that sustain nearly 2 billion people worldwide. As glaciers melt away, so do the...
Bruce Smith
- Dec 15, 2022
- 1 min
For Young and Old Alike
If you're like me and haven't yet finished your Christmas shopping, here's an idea. Get those readers in your life who like a good...
Bruce Smith
- Oct 24, 2022
- 1 min
Where did all the critters go?
I've written several blog posts earlier this year about the continuing loss of Earth's biodiversity. Not a happy subject. Yet, as with...
Bruce Smith
- Sep 25, 2022
- 1 min
Bumblebees on the Move
As the climate of the Rocky Mountains warms, bumblebee inhabitants of lower elevations are shifting their ranges into the alpine...
Bruce Smith
- Sep 2, 2022
- 1 min
The second Legend Keepers book
The second book in the Legend Keepers middle-grade series is here! Copies can now be ordered from bookstores and from online booksellers....
Bruce Smith
- Aug 20, 2022
- 1 min
Climate hazards worsen human disease
A study published in Nature Climate Change reports that over half of 375 human infectious diseases are made worse by extreme weather...
Bruce Smith
- Jul 31, 2022
- 1 min
Disappearing Climates & Biodiversity
Protected areas are biodiversity reservoirs around the globe. But as the warming of the planet's climate accelerates, species using...
Bruce Smith
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
Nature's true value
Drawing on more than 1,000 scientific studies assessing the value of nature, a landmark study published by the Intergovernmental...
Bruce Smith
- Jun 20, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- Feb 4, 2022
- 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
- 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...
Bruce Smith
- Aug 22, 2021
- 2 min
Trout in Trouble
Fly fishing in the Rocky Mountain West has become big business. As more and more people escape the confines of urban living, either...
Bruce Smith
- Jul 18, 2021
- 1 min
Too Hot for Bears
As this blazing hot and drought-stricken summer continues across the western US and Canada, it’s not just us humans feeling the heat....
Bruce Smith
- Jul 7, 2021
- 2 min
The Heat Is On
Like many of you, I’m sweltering through an historic heatwave plaguing the Pacific Northwest and northern Rocky Mountains. My hometown in...