National Wildlife

The National Wildlife Federation's flagship publication, the award-winning in-depth coverage of key US and global environmental issues, natural history, wildlife conservation, and people dedicated to protecting our ecosystems - augmented by spectacular nature photography.

A GROWTH MINDSET

National Wildlife

Monarchs Need Our Help

PEER REVIEW

scope

next generation

Small Is Beautiful • Well-chosen container plants provide big benefits for pollinators and other wildlife

A Growing Trend Bears Fruit for All • Urban orchards provide perennial food sources for humans and wildlife alike

Bathing Buddies • Antifungal slurries could be key to protecting amphibians from an insidious threat

Flash of Hope

A Healing Legacy • From her homestead in Wisconsin, a descendant of enslaved people deepens her knowledge of her heritage and her ecosystem as she helps revive the tradition known as Black herbalism

PRAIRIE SAGE

NEW ENGLAND ASTER

POOLS OF QUIET WONDER • Ephemeral and fragile, vernal pools nurture a surprising variety of specialized animal species well adapted to such seasonal wetlands

RETURN OF THE GRIZZLY • In Washington’s North Cascades, federal biologists will reintroduce grizzly bears decades after the predators were eradicated statewide

Spring-Fed Solar Power • The Pecos sunflower fuels a vibrant pocket of the U.S. Southwest, supporting pollinators, mammals and even fish while bathing its native wetlands in resplendent color

THE LONG TAIL OF D.D.T. • Why did traces of DDT show up in an Arkansas bat colony more than 40 years after the pesticide was banned—and what could it mean for humans and wildlife alike?

field work

Vice Versa

Germ of an Idea