Assistant Integrative Biology Professor Brian Buma, whose research is providing important information on how ecosystems can recover after fires, says, “If you’re going to put a house in the middle of the woods, you have to think about how those woods are going to burn. It’s a great opportunity to...

Following the news that wolves may be returning to Colorado of their own accord, Diana F. Tomback, Professor of Integrative Biology, told Newsweek , "Wolves are legally endangered species in Colorado, and protected by law. However, this pack ranges near the border of two states that do not have legal...

“Logging not only reduces the forest’s ability to store carbon and the number of trees, it disrupts the soil badly,” Brian Buma, Integrative Biology Assistant Professor, recently told VICE News in a conversation about Alaska. He also recently spoke about the effects of wildfires locally, saying “The problem is, we...

Integrative Biology Associate Professor Alan Vajda is one researcher who said there’s more to consider before eating fish from the South Platte. “Mercury is far from being the only concern to fish health,” he said. “Even if wastewater treatment plants were doing everything they could do to remove 100 percent...

Integrative Biology Professor Diana Tomback said, "There are compelling practical reasons for restoring the gray wolf to Colorado. The 'balance of nature' is not just a poetic catch phrase; it refers to a real ecological state." She will speak at the Durango Wolf Symposium at Fort Lewis College this month...

"The fires were good for Yellowstone," said Integrated Biology Professor Diana Tomback. "There is no one who thinks the Yellowstone fires were harmful." A summer of fire and then ... rebirth Deseret News , Sept 8

Professor in Integrative Biology Diana Tomback works with the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project on efforts to reintroduce wolves to ecosystems. Tomback acknowledges that part of this process means reckoning with the past, when ranchers drove wolves out of the Central Rockies. "It's time to make it right, but also to...

A chicken-and-egg problem: "Every PCR primer is designed based on a previous sequence out there," says Chris Miller, Integrated Biology Assistant Professor, who is not involved in the study. "PCR primer bias is big." A New Way to Find the Tree of Life's Missing Branches The Atlantic , Jan 8

A photographic exhibit that advocates the reintroduction of wolves into western Colorado will debut this Saturday at the Aspen Airport. According to Diana Tomback, Professor of Integrative Biology and a member of the science advisory committee for the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project, which is sponsoring the event, the exhibit serves a two-fold, inter-related purpose.