Month: November 2017

November 17, 2017

TWS signs letter supporting refuge volunteers

At the beginning of November, 16 organizations, including The Wildlife Society, signed a letter to the Chair and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal...

November 16, 2017

Investing in biodiversity conservation pays off

Countries around the world have invested millions in slowing biodiversity loss to meet international treaty commitments. But is conservation funding paying off on the ground? A new global study says...

November 16, 2017

TWS policy pioneer earns Honorary Membership Award

Tom Franklin’s first job after college, working on urban wildlife conservation, quickly taught him that decisions affecting wildlife often were not being made by wildlife biologists. “It became more and...

November 15, 2017

Read the most talked about papers from JWM and WSB

As a member of The Wildlife Society you can now easily read the full text of the most talked about papers from the Journal of Wildlife Management and the Wildlife...

November 15, 2017

DOI announces creation of new international conservation council

On Nov. 8, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced that it would be creating an International Wildlife Conservation Council with intent of providing advice on “increasing public awareness domestically...

November 14, 2017

2018 Annual Conference Call for Proposals now open!

Click here to download the PDF call. The Wildlife Society will hold its 25th Annual Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, October 7-11, 2018. Proposals for education and training programs including workshops,...

November 14, 2017

Student Research Project: Fishers recolonized remote landscape

After fishers (Pekania pennanti) were reintroduced in the 1990s to Cooking Lake Moraine, a rolling upland region in Central Alberta, researchers didn’t know if their budding population was a result...

November 13, 2017

USFWS expands hunting and fishing in 10 refuges

On Nov. 8 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it would increase hunting activities at nine national wildlife refuges and open up one refuge to sport fishing. Some...

November 13, 2017

Cover crops provide good bird habitat

It’s not only farmers who benefit from using cover crops. A new study finds birds might benefit as well. As a graduate student at the University of Illinois, Cassandra Wilcoxen...

November 13, 2017

Announcing the new issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management

The November issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management (Vol. 81.8) is now available online. The issue contains an editorial by Editor-in-Chief Paul Krausman, Content Editor Allison S. Cox, and Editorial Assistant...