Tag: Nebraska

From appearing on TV to teaching students to cultivating homegrown naturalists, Dennis Ferraro actively engages the public in wildlife conservation. These efforts have earned Ferraro, a professor of practice of...

The Wildlife Society’s sections, chapters and working groups hold meetings and workshops throughout the year. The following meetings are currently scheduled in February: Feb. 3-7, 2020: Western Section of The...

The sound of wind turbines doesn’t put a damper on the nearby mating rituals of greater prairie-chickens in Nebraska. “In terms of what’s happening in that lek, it may not...

These updates originally appear in the Nebraska Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s November 2018 newsletter. Chadron State College Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society By: Travis Millikan, Student Chapter President...

For many summers in his life, Howard Wiegers led around 20 students as they canoed their way into the Boundary Waters of Ontario to spend some three weeks learning wilderness...

Below is a summary of recent Student Chapter activities within the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, which was included in the Section’s Winter 2017 newsletter. The...

As the wide-open landscapes that greater prairie chickens (Tympanuchus cupido) occupy are increasingly eyed by energy companies for oil and gas, solar and wind facilities, biologists are taking a look...

Every spring, tourists from around the world flock to Nebraska to watch over half a million migrating sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) roosting on the Platte River. Where the birds choose...