Month: May 2017

May 9, 2017

Zinke orders BLM to revise planning and NEPA processes

On Mar. 27, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued a memo directing the Bureau of Land Management to revise and improve its processes for land use planning and environmental analysis under...

May 8, 2017

Read the new issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management

The May issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management (Vol. 80.4) is now available online in the Wiley Online Library. Featured in this issue are: Monitoring honeyeaters Coyote management Wolf...

May 8, 2017

USFWS releases first Refuge Annual Performance Report

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released its first Refuge Annual Performance Report — based on data published in the 2016/2017 Refuge Annual Performance Plan (RAPP). RAPPs compile data...

May 8, 2017

Rare bat species adapts to disturbed habitat

Two researchers at a time walked through the swampy waters of the bottomland hardwood forest in South Carolina on a mission to find a rare, sensitive bat species — the...

May 5, 2017

Enter the 2017 Wildlife Photo Gallery & Contest

It’s time to pop the SD card out of that camera you’ve been carrying around all year and browse through all the photos you took, because registration for this year’s...

May 5, 2017

Emerging leaders selected for 2017 Leadership Institute

Congratulations to the participants who have been chosen to participate in the 2017 TWS Leadership Institute! These promising early career wildlife professionals, selected from a competitive pool of applicants, will...

May 4, 2017

JWM study: Non-perching birds avoid gas wells

Grassland songbirds have suffered more declines than any other group of birds in North America because swaths of their habitat have been degraded by agriculture and development, including natural gas...

May 4, 2017

Company withdraws request to register Kaput feral hog bait in Texas

The company Scimetrics has withdrawn its request for registration in the state of Texas of the warfarin-based pesticide, Kaput, for its use in the control of feral swine (Sus scrofa)....

May 4, 2017

TWS Western Section offers novel training

For biologists, being in the field doesn’t always mean a walk in the forest. Biologists often find themselves donning a hardhat and going to work on a construction site. Sometimes...

May 3, 2017

JWM study: Dispersal spreads wolves throughout the West

When Diane Boyd arrived in Montana in 1979, the northern Rockies had just one wolf. A lone female wolf, it had wandered from Canada, possibly from as far as Banff...