Tag: roads

June 14, 2022

Road culverts could be a white-nose syndrome pathway

Southern Georgia doesn’t have many caves, so bats there need to find other places to hibernate. For some the solution is culverts—tunnels that channel water underneath roads.  But researchers worried...

July 21, 2021

How does the bee cross the road?

They may be tiny and sky bound but it turns out bees have just as much difficulty crossing busy roads in Michigan as larger species that make use of crossing...

July 15, 2020

How has the COVID-19 lockdown impacted wildlife?

Matthias Loretto had been studying common ravens in Yellowstone National Park — as well as in Austria, where he is from —  looking at how much ravens use wolf kills...

January 24, 2018

Road closures pave way for grizzly comeback

In British Columbia’s Monashee Mountains, where an imperiled population of grizzlies gradually recovers, the timber trade has carved out over 10,000 kilometers of dirt roads — more than twice the...

November 22, 2017

Farmland milkweed supports more monarch eggs

Ever since they learned that the monarch butterfly’s swift decline is tied to reductions in its host plant, conservationists have been planting milkweed alongside roads to boost the pollinator’s population....

June 30, 2017

Three new TWS journal issues published

The July issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management (Vol. 81.5), the latest Wildlife Monograph (Vol. 198) and the June issue of the Wildlife Society Bulletin (Vol. 41.2) are now...

May 2, 2017

Birds change song to be heard above traffic noise

Vehicles are a major source of noise pollution for urban wildlife. That’s particularly a problem for birds that have to compete with the roar of engines to communicate. Recent research...