CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT Whalers hunted humpbacks to near extinction, despite a humpback being the size of
a bus; outcompeted by a fellow salamander, this species is now limited to the high peaks of Shenandoah National
Park; this warbler needs young jack pines, which flourish after fire, now often suppressed; disturbing these bats during
hibernation uses up precious fat reserves and they can starve before spring comes; a small but magnificent darter,
this fish likes clear running waters, which are getting harder to find; thanks to drastic logging, there are so few of
Idaho’s lichen-eating caribou left that the focus is on saving those in Canada instead; the draining of sphagnum
bogs has left Connecticut’s turtles high, dry and endangered.
GALLERY