For plovers, manmade habitat falls short of the real thing
Efforts to use manmade habitat to help conserve threatened piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) on the Missouri River have helped, but they fell short of the work ...
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Student research project: LIDAR describes marten habitat
The elusive Pacific marten seeks shelter and food in the forests of the Sierra Nevada, where its populations are imperiled by habitat loss. Taking advantage of ...
Student research project: Chipmunks in the Oscura Mountains
In southern New Mexico, a seldom-studied subspecies of chipmunk faces an uncertain future due to the destruction of the high-elevation coniferous woodlands it ...
Study details ‘global epidemic’ of extinctions
A paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences warns that dramatic population declines of thousands of species may be imminent. The study found ...
British Columbia conservation group eyes property for bighorn sheep
The Nature Trust of British Columbia is seeking to purchase and protect an 87.5-acre area of bighorn sheep habitat on the east side of Skaha Lake in the ...
Neotropical spotted cats coexist near reserves
Only 2 percent of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest lies under government protection, but some species of spotted cats appear to prefer those more protected areas, recent ...
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 ...
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 ...