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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces grants for neotropical birds
Federal funds as well as matching partner funds from the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act will provide more than $20 to conservation projects, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently...
Climate changes is shifting Bracken Cave bat migration
South Texas’s Bracken Cave is home to 15 million Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) — the world’s largest known bat colony — and their use of the cave is changing...
Award recognizes member’s bird conservation project
A project led by longtime TWS member Jim Ray has received the Council for the Conservation of Migratory Birds’ 2019 Presidential Migratory Bird Federal Stewardship Award. A wildlife biologist with...
Hundreds of BLM positions to move west
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has announced plans to relocate the headquarters for the Bureau of Land Management to Grand Junction, Colo. The department plans to relocate a majority of over...
For Wisconsin bobcat harvest, it’s about supply and demand
As fewer people hunt in the United States, could decreasing hunting permits actually bring out more hunters? In Wisconsin, researchers found that as permits to harvest bobcats were slashed, interest...
TWS backs reintroduced Recovering America’s Wildlife Act
The bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act was reintroduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives by Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich and Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb. They were joined by over 50 of...
Yellow jacket ‘super nests’ appear in Alabama
Biologists in Alabama are warning of a proliferation of enormous yellow jacket nests — some as big as a Volkswagen Beetle — as warming temperatures allow more nests to survive...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service releases Banking on Nature report
A new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service analysis finds the National Wildlife Refuge system has an overall economic impact of $3.2 billion per year. The findings were part of the...
Bacteria treatment helps bats survive white-nose syndrome
White-nose syndrome has devastated bat populations across much of North America, but researchers have found that applying probiotic bacteria can reduce the disease’s impacts and help struggling populations survive. Combined...
A big event in ‘the biggest little city’
Set against the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada, the first-ever joint conference of The Wildlife Society and American Fisheries Society will focus on a broad array of natural resource topics...