Month: March 2019

Last week, during the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would delist the gray wolf (Canis lupus)in...

When Gavin Jones and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were studying spotted owls (Strix occidentalis) in the central Sierra Nevada in California, they noticed something interesting — the...

What do spreadsheets, birds, and board games have in common? They came together in Wingspan, a board game based on serious science that has become a phenomenon among board gamers....

To survive amid spruce trees, where cone production comes and goes from year to year, North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) put away cones during boom years to have something...

The impact of the winter’s weather on feral swine control has varied, but it also provides a reminder of another benefit to that effort. Mississippi and Louisiana are anticipating an...

Parents may want to think twice before allowing their children to let balloons fly off into the atmosphere. When seemingly harmless latex balloons end up in the ocean, according to...

Climate change has pushed migratory birds to take their spring trips a week earlier than they did six decades ago. According to a large-scale analysis of data gathered by 21...

When Brent Howze received a call about a big alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) wallowing around in a farmer’s irrigation ditch on a Monday morning in southwest Georgia, he thought it would...

Implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill, passed in December, is now underway. The $867 billion package funds many programs, from producer subsidies to food stamps, including $5 billion for conservation...

Some species can be notoriously difficult to spot, especially if they occupy forests with dense canopies. To detect koala populations through the cover of eucalyptus trees, researchers with the Queensland...