Category: TWS Wildlife News

When Sarah Bassing and her colleagues wanted to know what parts of their study areas were occupied by wolves, they asked them. “We would go to these random sites and...

A federal appeals court recently upheld the Bureau of Land Management’s decisions to help control populations of wild horses and burros, in two separate cases decided earlier this month. The...

The House of Representatives has passed the Great American Outdoors Act, which would fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund and provide money for federal maintenance of recreational infrastructure such...

As the climate has warmed over the past few decades, lizard species in Joshua Tree National Park are shifting to higher elevations. “Reptiles have been considered to be really good...

It’s natural for researchers to focus on the coast when studying shorebirds, but when Ellen Martin was studying them in Alaska as a master’s student at Colorado State University, she...

Short-term changes in birds’ body shapes may not indicate an ability to evolve with the fast pace of modern climate change. Researchers recently compared fossils of relatively small birds from...

A controversial provision in the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act would grant the U.S. Air Force control over an additional 840,000 acres of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge...

At the right angle, the second longest native snake in the United States and Canada is a shimmery black. But just blink and catch the orange-throated serpent in a different...

For veterinary researcher Annie Page-Karjian, veterinary science and wildlife biology need to come together more often. Juno Beach, a six-mile stretch of coastline in Central Florida that is critical to...

The Department of the Interior has abandoned plans to reintroduce grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) into the North Cascades ecosystem. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt made the announcement last week during...