Month: January 2019

The Wildlife Society recently contacted President Trump and congressional leaders to emphasize the impacts of the recent partial government shutdown on its members and their critical work of science-based wildlife management...

It has been over 300 years since Newell’s shearwater (Puffinus newelli) and Hawaiian petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis) colonies were detected on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Neither have been found since European...

A bill recently introduced in the Montana state legislature would limit the information that the state’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks can consider while making wildlife policy decisions. If passed,...

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus), which have been steeply declining throughout their range, showed a significant increase in their overwintering areas in Mexico, a World Wildlife Fund survey shows. The WWF...

Photographers and California residents have spotted and photographed blue-eyed coyotes (Canis latrans) throughout the state, from Sacramento to Santa Cruz. The species usually has golden-brown irises. Biologists say the blue...

The deadline to submit nominations for 2019 TWS Fellows and Group Achievement Awards is this Friday, Feb. 1, by 11:59 p.m. EST. Nominate a respected colleague you believe will continue...

As drought, climate change and increases in soil salinity are causing farmland to become retired in California, the idled lands could provide landscapes for the endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia...

The William L. Hutcheson Memorial Forest is a rare piece of land in New Jersey. Set aside by Dutch settlers in 1701, it is an uncut tract of old growth...

TWS members Annemarie Prince, Melia DeVivo and Sara Hansen, were recently spotlighted in The Spokesman Review as three Washington state wildlife scientists helping pave the way for other women wildlifers....

A few years ago, University of Guelph researcher Elizabeth Gow’s work wouldn’t have been possible. But improvements in technology allowed biologists to fit tiny tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)with even tinier...