Month: March 2016

March 4, 2016

TWS member wins Refuge Manager of the Year award

Longtime member of The Wildlife Society Keith Weaver was recently recognized as Refuge Manager of the Year after committing over 30 years to working with national wildlife refuges. “When I...

March 3, 2016

Blue Ribbon Panel recommends $1.3 billion for state plans

Former state politicians, environmental group representatives, academic researchers, business executives from outdoor equipment companies and the oil industry, and others have come together in a rare showing of solidarity to...

March 3, 2016

New student chapter launches kestrel project

Colter Dye was taking Amy Sibul’s undergraduate wildlife ecology and conservation course at the University of Utah a couple of years ago, which required him to take part in a...

March 2, 2016

The Wildlife Professional March/April issue is online

The latest issue of The Wildlife Professional is now online. Read about ongoing efforts to protect native bee populations in our cover story, Pollinators in Decline. Also learn about how...

March 2, 2016

TWS member behind first major grizzly estimate of Kenai

Biologists have scrambled up mountains and searched the remote backcountry of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula to provide the first comprehensive estimate of the region’s grizzly bear population. “We’ve been trying to...

March 1, 2016

University course prepares students for annual TWS conference

Aside from their regular classes, students at Purdue University will take a course next fall to help prepare them for The Wildlife Society’s 23rd Annual Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. The...

March 1, 2016

Where the wild plants are

Meat-eater. Coastal resident. Pyromaniac. No, we aren’t describing a typical wildlife biologist in eastern North Carolina (although who are we kidding, the description fits). We are talking about the Venus...