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Despite numerous campaigns and even laws banning them, distracted driving and driving under the influence continue to pose significant but preventable risks to drivers, roadside workers and other roadside pedestrians.

A March 2022 report from vertical software company Porch.com ranked electrician as the top career choice among the skilled trades for 2022, citing “good earning potential, excellent job growth prospects and an established industry behind it.”

Finally, there is some hopeful news in the battle against white-nose syndrome! Last week a team of researchers from UC San Francisco and Brown University published a ground-breaking study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences about white-nose syndrome.

Learning how to identify plants and animals–especially when you’re first starting out with a conservation project—can be seem pretty daunting at first. Once you get the hang of it, though, I promise it gets much easier! Here’s a list of six tricks I use all the time when I’m trying to identify wildlife in the field.