As wolf populations grow in parts of the West, most of the focus has been on their value in aiding broader ecosystem recovery – but a new study from Oregon State University also points out that they could play an important role in helping to save other threatened species.

Synchronicity in nature is seen in beating hearts, the flashing of fireflies' lights, the ebb and flow of infectious disease—and the simultaneous rise and fall of populations across vast reaches of space.

Federal wildlife officials will hold an informational meeting Wednesday night on a proposal to designate more than 10,000 square miles of Maine forestland as critical habitat for Canada lynx.

By FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS More than 10,000 square miles of timberland in northern Maine again is included in a revised federal proposal designating areas in six states as critical habitat for the threatened Canada lynx.

The federal government on Thursday increased by 26 times the amount of Minnesota forest considered "critical habitat'' for the lynx forest cat. The U.S.