Tag: student research

In northern Indiana, spotted turtles (Clemmys guttata) and Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) face a number of human-caused threats. While habitat fragmentation, habitat loss and degradation, road mortality and even poaching...

The elusive Pacific marten seeks shelter and food in the forests of the Sierra Nevada, where its populations are imperiled by habitat loss. Taking advantage of LIDAR, the laser-based remote...

In southern New Mexico, a seldom-studied subspecies of chipmunk faces an uncertain future due to the destruction of the high-elevation coniferous woodlands it inhabits. Using camera traps, a recent student...

Towns are few and far between amid the forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but even these small amounts of urbanization can affect the biodiversity of bird communities, a student research...

Since wildlife managers first detected chronic wasting disease among southern Michigan’s wild deer populations in 2015, they have detected 11 more cases, all appearing in a westerly direction from the...

After fishers (Pekania pennanti) were reintroduced in the 1990s to Cooking Lake Moraine, a rolling upland region in Central Alberta, researchers didn’t know if their budding population was a result...

While interning with The Nature Conservancy in South Dakota in August 2015, Lisa Zoromski, a University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point senior, found that bulls and juveniles in the free-ranging...

Over the course of one year, an American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) population in Maine dropped significantly, likely a result of drought, according to new research presented at the TWS...

Despite the negative impacts that people have on natural ecosystems, some wildlife species are surviving on the expanded menus that humans offer them. In particular, large carnivores in landscapes altered...

Black bears tend to stay away from roads and houses in Connecticut suburbs during important periods of their lives, according to new research. Michael Evans discussed findings from his University...