Month: July 2017

Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), along with nine cosponsors (8D, 1R), introduced a bill (S. 1537) to reauthorize the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA). NMBCA was enacted in 2000 and...

TWS member Evelyn Merrill, a longtime wildlife biologist and former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Wildlife Management, received the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s Excellence in Elk Country-Wildlife Researcher/Biologist award, honoring...

The Wildlife Society’s 24th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico is closer than you think, so it’s time to start getting excited about some workshop opportunities in store. In a...

The $31.456 billion spending bill on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies for fiscal year 2018 (FY18) was approved by the House Appropriations Committee late on Jul. 18. The bill would...

Gray wolves (canis lupus) are protected within the boundaries of central Alaska’s Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, but their numbers are being reduced by predator management efforts outside the preserve, according...

Get ready to get your hands dirty! There’s no better way to learn about new techniques, ideas and other parts of the wildlife biology field than to have hands-on experience...

After devastating oil spills like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the impact on birds is easy to see when they lay dead on the ground...

The results from the 2017 TWS Council elections are in. The Society has elected Gary White, a former Central Mountains and Plains Section representative and the 51st recipient of TWS’s...

The Nunavut Wildlife Management Board (NWMB) has opened a public hearing to allow for submission of written comments in response to Environment and Climate Change Canada – Canadian Wildlife Service’s...

A team of researchers has documented the first detection of the fungus responsible for snake fungal disease in wild snakes in Europe. They wrote about their findings in a study...