Tag: lynx

January 8, 2021

Watch: Revisiting Colorado’s successful lynx reintroduction

More than 20 years after efforts began to restore lynx to Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, state wildlife officials say the project has been a success. Colorado Parks and Wildlife estimates...

December 16, 2020

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service faces lawsuits over sage-grouse, lynx

The Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project have filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as other Department of...

September 29, 2020

TWS2020: Transylvanian carnivores live in harmony

Thoughts of vampires may make some people want to keep their distance from Transylvanian carnivores, but new research shows that the animals seem to tolerate each other’s presence quite well....

August 12, 2020

Wild Cam: Types of scavengers vary based on live prey abundance

It was the summer of 2015 in Yukon, Canada when Michael Peers and his fellow researchers deployed a trail camera near a snowshoe hare carcass to see what it might...

October 7, 2019

Wild Cam: Researchers ID predators from saliva at kill sites

DNA sleuths are identifying predators from kill sites with the help of the saliva they leave on their prey. “Our broader study was transformed by this technique, which was successful...

February 5, 2019

Is that a lynx? Or a bobcat?

For a project mapping the distribution of bobcats (Lynx rufus) and lynx (Lynx canadensis) in British Columbia, researcher TJ Gooliaff was using images — from trail cameras, camera phones and...

June 22, 2016

Wildlife habitat thrives in northern boreal forests

Northern boreal forests in Quebec — home to black spruce trees (Picea mariana) that many species of wildlife rely on for habitat — can provide refuge to species that suffer...