This year’s Annual Conference will be an especially exciting event. For the first time, The Wildlife Society and American Fisheries Society are joining forces for a joint conference, where fisheries and wildlife professionals can join …
The last recorded sighting of a Bramble Cay melomys was in 2009, when a fisherman reported seeing a few of the small rodents take flight across the Australian island where they resided. Since then, biologists …
Last fall, the Bureau of Land Management gathered 845 wild horses and burros from the Warm Springs Herd Management Area in central Oregon as part of a sterilization research project. The project was to involve surgically …
When researchers looked at the effects of recent extreme drought in the Sierra Nevada, they expected to find the large-scale death of trees would cause bird numbers to decline. Instead, they found many of the …
Researchers have launched the first large-scale laboratory release of mosquitos genetically engineered using a gene editing technique that some biologists believe holds promise for combating an array of problems, from malaria to invasive rodents. NPR …
On former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s last day in office, he signed a secretarial order calling for the department to do more to prevent wildfire on its lands. Coming in response to an executive order …
Averting another government shutdown, Congress passed a $333 billion appropriations and border security package containing language to fund federal agencies through the end of the fiscal year. The bill provides funding for agencies, such as the …
Spreading salt on the roads to make winter driving safer may be causing problems for wildlife. In a recent article, scientists reported a large increase of chloride in streams, lakes and rivers over previous decades. …
This article originally appears in the North Carolina Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Winter 2018-19 newsletter. Photos from the workshop also appear in the newsletter. On Nov. 1, over 40 natural resources professionals, students and …
Prey species such as tiger moths (Arctia caja) often use acoustics to deter approaching bats. But can people do the same thing? Sara Weaver, a doctoral candidate at Texas State University, studied whether people could …
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