Month: August 2016

The U.S. National Park Service turns 100 today, a momentous landmark for the agency entrusted with America’s most treasured landscapes. Congress established the Service in 1916 to oversee national parks...

Registration is now open for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Climate Academy, a collaborative effort between state and federal agencies as well as The Wildlife Society and other non-profit...

Managing wildlife in the face of climate change is a Herculean task, but focusing on climate change refugia can be one way to help ease the pressure. As part of...

The Pennsylvania Chapter of The Wildlife Society will be hosting a Field Day/Fall Gathering on Sept. 23-24, 2016, in DuBois and Benezette, Pennsylvania. The event will begin with a visit...

Following the introduction of mallards in Florida in the 1960s as a favorite in backyard ponds and other landscaped areas, the ducks took a liking to Florida mottled ducks. Now...

From New Jersey to Manitoba, young piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) are learning to fly on beaches that haven’t seen plover nests in years. The birds’ expansion to new beaches is...

This past spring, white-nose syndrome, a disease that’s caused the death of over 5 million bats in the U.S. so far, jumped from the eastern U.S., where it had originally...

John Craighead, a member of The Wildlife Society since 1951, celebrated his 100th birthday on Aug. 14. Craighead, who was born in Washington D.C., moved to out west with his...

Partners in Flight recently released their 2016 Landbird Conservation Plan, presenting vulnerability assessments for bird species across Canada and the United States. Partners in Flight (PIF) is a network of...

Wildlife conservationists and renewable energy proponents may share large-scale environmental goals, but they are butting heads over the fate of the California desert, The Washington Post reports. In collaboration with...