JWM study: Off-highway vehicles encroaching on kit fox habitat
Come wintertime in the Southwest, a flurry of recreationists hit the desert trails on dirt bikes, in four-wheel-drive vehicles and on all-terrain vehicles. But ...
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Student research project: Monitoring Georgia black bears
A small black bear population (Ursus americanus) in central Georgia appears to be relatively stable, and more bears are found in upland habitat filled with pines ...
JWM study: Lasers help map red tree vole habitat in Oregon
Lasers can shed light on where even small species live on the landscape and help wildlife managers plan for their conservation, a new study shows. Researchers used ...
Sage grouse benefit from connected habitat
The current network of key sage grouse habitats has many important characteristics for maintaining populations, but if habitats are disconnected it could lead to ...
House bill reintroduced to permanently reauthorize LWCF
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, and Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA) introduced H.R.502 on Jan. 12 to ...
DU, partners host panel at WHC Conservation Conference
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Dec. 5, 2016 – Ducks Unlimited (DU), Axalta Coating Systems, ConocoPhillips and Caterpillar Inc., recently conducted a panel discussion on ...
Lawsuit halts changes to big game habitat management
Following litigation by a coalition of wildlife and sportsmens groups, the U.S. Forest Service has dropped changes to a decades-long big game habitat management ...
NRCS expands working lands conservation program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has added 11 new projects to the Working Lands for Wildlife (WLFW) program, ...
Habitat restoration begins at Shuswap Lake, BC
A habitat restoration project has begun on the banks of Shuswap Lake, less than a kilometer from Salmon Arm, British Columbia. The project, organized by the Salmon ...
California spotted owls prefer protected areas
To understand which characteristics of forests California spotted owls prefer, researchers determined it was important to take a look back in time. As part of a ...