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 ...
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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 ...
Newly protected habitat benefits Canadian species at risk
Hundreds of acres of biologically diverse habitat near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, have recently become protected under management by The Nature Conservancy of ...
Climate change wipes out pikas on isolated peaks
Pikas are a textbook climate tragedy. As temperatures rise, the fluffy, cold-loving mammals retreat higher and higher up mountain slopes, eventually perishing on ...
How bioenergy demand could affect wildlife habitat
Sweet sorghum, switchgrass and trees are among some of the products that are used as fuel for bioenergy, or renewable energy produced by living organisms. In a ...
JWM study: Predation largely to blame for fisher deaths
Biologists are now closer to understanding fisher (Pekania pennanti) survival and mortality rates following a multiyear study. New research published in the April ...
Barred Owls Intensify Northern Spotted Owl Decline
Populations of federally threatened northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis caurina), a subspecies native to the western United States, continue to dwindle. The ...
Green Roofs Offer a Taste of Home for Birds in Cities
Apart from the usual green spaces, it appears that city birds also appreciate landscaped roofs. A recent study published in the Wildlife Society Bulletin shows how ...