Month: February 2015

Yellowstone National Park is teaming up with Utah State University to conduct a study that will help determine why the northern Yellowstone elk herd has declined 60 to 70 percent...

Spotted owl researcher Eric Forsman, a member of The Wildlife Society since 1975, recently received a U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary’s Honor Award at a formal ceremony in Washington, D.C. ...

On Tuesday, February 24, TWS membership becomes even more valuable—and at no additional cost to our members. Every Tuesday, TWS members will receive an email with links to two recorded...

Three times a year, NASA aircraft operations use one of NASA’s helicopters to conduct eagle flights with environmental ecologists to keep tabs on eagle nests. Although the bald eagle population...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is in the process of drafting a proposed rule for part of its Planning 2.0 Initiative. Planning 2.0 is the agency’s strategy to streamline...

Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico), along with a group of four other bipartisan co-sponsors, recently introduced S. 405, The Bipartisan Sportsmen Act of 2015. The bill...

The Wildlife Society is taking steps to strengthen connections between its sections, chapters, and headquarters. “The individual units of The Wildlife Society are not as connected as they need to...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission met in Jacksonville last week to discuss black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus) management strategies to help reduce human-bear conflicts. At the meeting, commissioners...

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission field staff recently started a four-year research project to place GPS tracking collars on mountain lions. As part of the effort, biologists will track...

Illegal marijuana plantations may not lead to high times for the recovery of a species of threatened owls, according to researchers. The northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) is currently...