Month: April 2019

California condors (Gymnogyps californianus), which were first listed as endangered in 1967, under the precursor to the Endangered Species Act, are slated to be reintroduced for the first time in...

The Northeast Section of The Wildlife Society will host a trapping matters workshop May 31 in Hadley, Massachusetts. The workshop will help participants understand and better communicate the benefits of regulated...

Trumpeter swans (Cygnus buccinator) had been wiped out in the wild in much of their range, but efforts to restore the birds to Ontario and parts of the United States...

It may seem like taking a weed wacker to perennial grasslands where monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) feed on their only food source, milkweed, is not the best idea. But researchers...

Marshes are as particular as goldilocks, Duke University researcher Anna E. Braswell says. If they never get flooded, they’ll turn into uplands. But if they get flooded too much, they’ll...

Steve Demarais, a longtime TWS member and a TWS Fellow, was awarded Mississippi State’s highest honor, the Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award. Demarais is a Dale Arner Distinguished Professor...

Young forests help sustain an abundance of wildlife across the Northeast, and they can be more resilient to threats. But cutting down trees to let new ones grow can be...

If you follow the lunar new year, the year of the pig has recently begun. But should it really be the year of the bird? OK, the National Geographic Society...

Decades of sediment built up deep under Arctic ponds can reveal the size of past seabird populations and how harvesting has impacted their numbers over the decades. “We can track...

Follow scientists with the U.S. fish and Wildlife Service and the University of New Mexico’s Geography and Environmental Studies, as they use unmanned aerial systems at Bosque del Apache National...