Month: January 2016

The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has announced a proposed rule to reclassify the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Listed...

Undergraduate students at the University of North Dakota Nick Conrad and John Palarski rode around in ATVs in search of blue-winged teal nests last summer. They found the nests and...

The National Horse and Burro Rangeland Management Coalition (NHBRMC), currently chaired by The Wildlife Society, has launched an information and education campaign to inform the public of the issues surrounding...

Longleaf pine forests once occupied over 90 million acres across the Southeast including most of Eastern North Carolina. By all accounts, the longleaf pine forest dominated the southern landscape. Starting...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced that it will not extend Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections to the Alexander Archipelago wolf (Canis lupus ligoni) of southeastern Alaska and...

The Wildlife Society has a collection of powerful position statements on a wide variety of issues pertinent to wildlife management, conservation, and the profession. These formal statements serve to convey...

Last year, 59 grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) died in Yellowstone — the highest number of bear deaths in the region since 1970. Still, the impact may not be as large...

Human influences on the environment may be making it harder for frogs to fight diseases, which could be causing their populations to decline. In a study published in the journal Biological...

On December 4, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources confirmed a case of raccoon rabies in Hamilton, Ontario about 80 kilometers from the Buffalo, New York Airport and west of...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is awaiting confirmation that a fifth deer in the state has tested positive for chronic wasting disease — a fatal disease that attacks the...