Month: December 2015

This month, experts with the USDA-APHIS Wildlife Services (WS) program were honored with the 2015 Project of the Year Award for Resource Conservation and Climate Change from the Department of...

Bison that once roamed the continent in search of nutritious grass may be adapting to a wider diet to suit a more sedentary lifestyle. “If you’re going to be keeping...

The New Mexico Chapter of the Wildlife Society sent a letter on November 21 to the New Mexico Game Commission and the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish encouraging...

From studying bats and sharp-tailed grouse habitat to attending fire ecology workshops and meeting with tribal leaders, students involved in the first Native American Assistantship offered by The Wildlife Society...

Because North American monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) can’t survive cold winters in the United States, they often migrate south in the fall to places such as Mexico. Now, a new...

The National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy recently called for nominations for the Climate Adaptation Leadership Award for Natural Resources. This is a brand new award that will...

Spending the summer peering around a beach in St. Kitts in search of leatherback sea turtles and their nests wasn’t just a walk in the park — or on the...

Numbers of Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem grizzly bears have been increasing enough that some researchers are saying the population could be delisted from the federal Endangered Species Act. Researchers say...

Strengthening TWS and Our Role in Policy Over the past two decades, expansion of captive cervid propagation and commercialization activities in the United States has threatened the health of wild...

Draining watersheds may not be helping federally threatened plovers, according to new research. “We could be continually making it harder for them to maintain and grow their population because there’s...