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Maeve Kiley History of Serpentine Stigma Snakes have historically been portrayed as mischievous, dangerous, and sometimes, downright evil. Humans have assigned morality upon an unsuspecting animal due to its physical appearance and biology. The most common theory behind human aversion to snakes is due to evolution. Evolutionary scientists suggest many humans have a “genetic phobia” of snakes due to venomous snakes being a common threat to humanity’s ancestors.

Little Bighorn is often remembered as a vast battlefield stretching across the plains. Yet standing there reveals a different reality. Beneath the open horizon lie ridges, valleys, and hidden places that conceal as much as they reveal. The land offered clues to what was coming. What happened here was shaped not only by what people knew, but by what they chose to dismiss.

National Animal Rights Week asks us to confront a painful contradiction: animals are loved, honored, and remembered, yet too often treated as expendable. From Ahimsa to Mitákuye Oyás'iŋ, many traditions teach that animals are not objects, but living relations worthy of protection, dignity, and care.

The initial post regarding our social media coverage of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn.

Four black-bellied whistling ducks have recently appeared at Chipco Preserve, bringing their soft flute-like calls, long-legged silhouettes, and quiet signs of ecological change. Once more common farther south, these social wetland birds are expanding across Florida, reminding us that habitat, water, and conservation matter. Their arrival is a gentle signal that the Preserve remains part of a larger living map shaped by wings, weather, and wild movement.

Maeve Kiley Honoring the Fallen for 158 Years General John A. Logan was an American soldier, general, and politician. He served as an officer with the 1st Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Mexican-American War and, upon his return home to Illinois, was elected to the US House of Representatives in November 1858. He defended the Union during the months leading up to the Civil War and then volunteered his services upon the war’s outbreak. Grave markers with American flags

Small things that makes us smile.

A brief discussion about Chipco Preserve's podcasts.

A story about a bird that is making a family in our garage.

Chipco Preserve’s support for Native communities is often built through relationships, one conversation, one need, one box, and one act of care at a time. For Steve and Michele Turner of Chatham, Illinois, that relationship began when Steve was asked to join Chipco Preserve's board. At the time, Steve said that he knew little about the Rosebud Sioux Tribe or daily life on the Rosebud Reservation. Over the next several months, that changed. Through conversations with Chipco Pr

Maeve Kiley Everglades wildfire, August 20, 2025, taken by Felix Mizioznikov. Unsettling Trends This year has been the driest winter and spring in decades. 2026 has seen an unprecedented number of wildfires in Georgia and Florida due to the uncharacteristically hot conditions. According to Direct Relief, at least 87 homes have been destroyed by wildfires, and thousands have been forced to evacuate. Many counties in Florida and Georgia are under burn bans to combat the combu

Maeve Kiley The Cruelest Month The 20th-century author & poet, T.S. Elliot, famously stated in the opening lines of The Waste Land , “April is the cruelest month.” The paradoxical reversal of a hopeful spring is framed as “painful” because it forces memory and passion to emerge from the numbness of winter. With April labeled the “Month of Spring,” it is now important to prepare for the new season. Earth Month 2026 In a digital age so focused on centering its captors’ lives

Maeve Kiley Dr. Susan La Fleche Picotte, the first Native American woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S. Photo courtesy of The National Library of Medicine. Early Life Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte was born Susan La Flesche on June 17, 1865, on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska. She was the youngest child of E-sta-mah-za “Iron Eyes” (Joseph) La Flesche, the last formal chief of the Omaha Tribe, and his wife, Hin-nu-ags-nun “The One Woman” (Mary) Gale La Flesche. Chi

Can you guide wildlife safely through a human-shaped landscape? Test your instincts in Crossing Paths, our new free conservation puzzle game.

A brief story about the Harlem Hellfighters.

Maeve Kiley A Grand Return One small step for a tortoise. One giant leap for tortoise kind. In 2026, the Floreana giant tortoise set foot on its namesake Galápagos island for the first time in 180 years. Scientists first found remnants of Floreana giant tortoises at Wolf Volcano on Isabella Island in 2008. By 2017, they established a “back-breeding” programme, determined to return the species to the island that had mourned their absence for nearly two centuries. Although this

A brief history of Osceola.

Maeve Kiley A Magnificent Lyrebird. As the first month of 2026 comes to an end, many animals face constant threats from deforestation, habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. According to the I nternational Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, over 48,600 species are at risk of extinction, but this is an estimated fraction of the total, which could be close to a million. Some do not see the value in protecting the many struggling s