Through a four-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment researchers hope to decipher the nest-building secrets of the bluehead chub to learn more about conserving its threatened companions. Learn more about this amazing ecosystem engineer 🐟➡️ https://fal.cn/3fRyx | Virginia Tech

Research co-authored by Dr. Erick Lundgren and published in Science revealed that wild burros provide a significant benefit to desert ecosystems. These amazing animals browse and graze on our public lands, and incredibly, they even dig wells that provide sources of water for nearly 60 other species of wildlife in the area! We followed the work of Dr. Lundgren for a mini-documentary called Ecosystem Engineers about these groundbreaking findings because increasing public awareness around wild burr