Cattle alone on an island can ruin it ... In 2013, an ornithologist recorded six Aleutian terns and identified one nest with two eggs. In the United States, Aleutian tern populations have crashed ...

The island lies further west than Hawaii; its position on the cusp of East Asia makes it one of Alaska's more remote and idiosyncratic communities. Part of the Aleutian Islands, a 1,100-mile ...