Bruce Smith
- May 29, 2022
- 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 24, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 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
- Jan 14, 2022
- 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...
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...