Month: March 2019

March 26, 2019

Former TWS President Daniel Decker receives Grinnell award

Former TWS President Daniel Decker received the Wildlife Management Institute’s George Bird Grinnell Memorial Award for Distinguished Service to Natural Resource Conservation. The award, established in honor of conservation pioneer...

March 26, 2019

Secretarial order signed to improve public access to federal lands

Last week, acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed a new secretarial order related to public access for outdoor recreation on public lands. This is one of two new secretarial orders Bernhardt...

March 26, 2019

Frogs change sex even in natural settings

Frogs can change their sex even in pristine, pollution free settings. Past research suggested that male-to-female sex changes happening in frogs in suburban ponds may be caused by increased levels of estrogen...

March 25, 2019

Feed a Bee program reaches 50-state milestone

Feed a Bee, the national pollinator forage initiative by Bayer, has reached its goal of awarding grants supporting diverse forage for pollinators in all 50 states. The 50th recipient awarded...

March 25, 2019

Three decades later, Exxon Valdez impacts remain

Pollution remains embedded deep in the Alaskan coastal ecosystem of Prince William Sound some 30 years after the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground on a reef and emptied 10.8 million...

March 25, 2019

For some butterflies, reason for wing adaptation is clear

Some butterflies have a clear means of protection, and predators can see right through it. According to new research, clearwing butterflies have evolved these transparent traits in order to avoid...

March 22, 2019

John Moriarty receives Boy Scouts gold medal award

John Moriarty, longtime TWS member and North Central Section Representative to Council, recently was honored with the Boy Scouts of America William T. Hornaday Gold Medal Award.  Moriarty is a...

March 22, 2019

Tracking sea otter tool use to inform conservation

Sea otter (Enhydra lutris) biologists have combined forces with archaeologists to develop new ways to track past activity of the marine mammals. The collaboration could help inform conservationists and biologist...

March 22, 2019

Video: Rains cause painted ladies to linger in California

Heavy desert rainfall has been keeping large swarms of painted lady (Vanessa cardui) butterflies in California, delaying their migration. These clouds of butterflies — likely numbering in the millions — in...

March 21, 2019

WSB: What’s the best way to count elk by air?

Elk (Cervus canadensis) aren’t exactly scarce in Arizona, and over the past century, their numbers have continued to grow. Wildlife managers there never had to get an exact count. Herds...