Fishlake National Forest and Boulder Mountain Habitat Improvement Projects
The Beaver, Fillmore, Fremont River, and Richfield Ranger Districts of the Fishlake National Forest worked together to design a landscape scale project to remove ...
sage grouse
Wyoming Chapter comments to improve sage-grouse regulations
New policies and regulations regarding greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) management were proposed in the state of Wyoming earlier this year in ...
Review team submits sage-grouse management recommendations
The U.S. Department of the Interior released a report, developed by the Sage-Grouse Review Team, which provides an assessment of the 2015 federal Greater ...
Zinke orders review of sage grouse conservation plans
On Jun. 8, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed Secretarial Order 3353 (Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation and Cooperation with Western States). With the Order, the ...
Efforts to alter ESA continue in 115th Congress
Listing Reform Act On Jan. 27, Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) introduced H.R. 717 with the intent to alter the process of listing a species as threatened or endangered ...
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 ...
Sage-grouse rider removed from defense bill
Congressional committee members have removed an amendment from the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 that would have impacted conservation and ...
TWS asks for science-based decision making in ESA listings
On Aug. 8, The Wildlife Society issued a letter to the Congressional Conference Committee for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, asking ...
Species feeling the heat from climate change: Part 2
USGS is providing a two-part series on eight species feeling the effects of climate change. Part 1 is available here. From forest to grassland, desert to ocean, ...
Announcing the June 2016 Issue of the Wildlife Society Bulletin
The June 2016 issue (Vol. 40.2) of the Wildlife Society Bulletin contains 13 original articles as well as nine papers on tools and technology, three opinion pieces ...