Ted Williams

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Ted Williams is freelance writer.

Articles by Ted Williams

Doggone: Prairie Dogs Face a New and Deadly Threat
February 17, 2012 — Prairie dogs have been eliminated from more than 95 percent of their grassland habitat. And now they, and the vast and complicated ecosystems they sustain, face a new and deadly threat.
Smoke on the Water: Stopping a Coal-fired Power Plant in Arkansas
February 15, 2012 — Nationwide, coal-fired power plants appear to be on the way out. But in southwest Arkansas—next to some of the finest fish and wildlife habitat anywhere—one may be on the way in.
Energy
Wake up, BP, and Restore Wyoming’s Soda Lake
December 21, 2011 — The last thing that the nation’s most maligned oil company needs is another black eye. So it remains a mystery why, after being such a good neighbor for so long, it refuses to honor its pledge to maintain one of the most important waterfowl, wading b
Earth Almanac
December 20, 2011 — Cold-weather moths; desert wise guy; midwinter's sweet treat; blizzard-loving bison; bicoastal, beach-storming dunlins; more.
Earth Almanac
December 13, 2011 — Forest clowns; desert drummers; color schemers; high-altitude acrobats; more.
Earth Almanac
November 21, 2011
Life Support
November 10, 2011 — The news for Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades’ lungs and kidneys, is mixed at best. But at last we understand what’s at stake and how to heal the lake.
Earth Almanac
November 10, 2011 — Porcupine passion; an eight-legged lynx; more.
Tarred and Feathered
October 25, 2011 — A Canadian-based company is bluffing and bullying its way through six states so it can pump the world’s dirtiest oil through a 1,661-mile-long pipeline that crosses some of our most fragile wildlife habitats and lies inside e
Free-Range Chickens
September 09, 2011 — Lesser prairie chickens are almost cooked. But in the West, sensible planning and healthy partnerships hold promise—if Americans would only abandon their current policy of wind, oil, and gas development anywhere, at any cost.