Tag: Wyoming

Efforts to reduce the population of nonnative mountain goats in the Tetons has reduced their numbers to 29 — all in Grand Teton National Park. Wyoming Game and Fish biologists...

Hunting season in south-central Wyoming doesn’t seem to impact the timing of migration for mule deer, but it does seem to prompt bucks to seek areas away from roads used...

It was February 1999, and a pack of five wolves had just made their way into the National Elk Refuge in northwest Wyoming. The new pack, which had moved south...

This article originally appeared in the Wyoming Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Fall 2020 newsletter. Through strange times, the University of Wyoming’s Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society has not...

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of The Wildlife Society’s sections and chapters have transitioned to virtual meetings. The following meetings are currently scheduled for November: November 17, 2020:...

Most studies on the effects of wind turbines on wildlife focus on bats and birds, but researchers wondered how pronghorn may be affected. In a contributed oral presentation at the...

In Wyoming’s Thunder Basin National Grassland, imperiled mountain plovers choose nesting habitats on the edges of black-tailed prairie dog colonies, researchers found. The grassland plover species is known to nest...

Energy development throughout Wyoming — including wind turbines and natural gas and oil extraction — decreases greater sage-grouse reproduction by removing the sagebrush landscapes they rely on, according to a...

Elk sometimes turn to forests affected by bark-beetle epidemics, possibly finding refuges in areas hunters mostly avoid, according to new research. The bark‐beetle (Dendoctronus ponderosae) epidemic has killed off large...

The National Park Service backed off plans to use aerial shooting to remove invasive mountain goats from Grand Teton National Park after Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon wrote a sharply worded...