Month: March 2016

Nominations for the Jay N. “Ding” Darling Memorial Award for Wildlife Stewardship Through Art and all remaining awards will be accepted through May 1. Visit the Darling Memorial Award webpage or our...

As the appropriations season for fiscal year (FY) 2017 ramps up in Washington, Congressional subcommittees in both the House and Senate are holding hearings to discuss and dissect the President’s budget request. Every...

Maggi Sliwinski, a PhD candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been studying how private landowners feel about habitat management. Her poster presentation of the findings won first place in...

The potential spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) – a deadly chytrid fungus that has caused salamander die-offs in Europe – is the impetus for new proposed regulation of salamander importation. A...

The Nominating Committee of The Wildlife Society announces the candidates for upcoming vacancies on TWS Council. Additional nominees for these positions may be submitted by any Voting Member in good...

The methods biologists currently use to examine biodiversity could need some tinkering, according to new research. When there’s an absence of recent biodiversity from an area, often researchers assume a...

Grazing in contentious federal land could be causing stress on federally threatened desert tortoises in Nevada, according to new research. A new study published recently in The Journal of Wildlife...

Tiny hummingbirds can travel around 1,200 miles during their migrations between eastern North America and Central America, according to a new modeling study. “The most interesting thing, in my opinion,...

Anthrax, a deadly spore-forming bacterial disease, has been around for quite some time. In fact, it’s one of the first diseases that a vaccine was developed for in the 1930s....

Student chapter members at the University of North Dakota were recognized at the recent TWS North Dakota Chapter conference. Among 20 UND undergraduate students and five graduate students, many received...