Month: May 2019

May 31, 2019

Watch: Mule deer use wildlife underpass in Wyoming

Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) are making use of a new underpass designed to reduce the danger of wildlife strikes in Sublette County, Wyo. The Wyoming Department of Transportation built two...

May 31, 2019

Learn about the natural history of Catalina Island

The Western Section of The Wildlife Society will co-host a guided workshop on Catalina Island August 5 to 8, 2019. This four-day immersive workshop will introduce participants to the natural...

May 31, 2019

When a burrowing owl prefers the scaffolding

Everyone has heard the saying “a picture’s worth a thousand words,” but what a picture does not provide is the backstory — details about the who, what, where, when and...

May 30, 2019

Should Idaho bighorn be listed as a record?

There’s no question that the bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) taken by a Nez Perce Tribe member nearly three years ago in Idaho was a big one. But whether or not...

May 30, 2019

House bill would increase wildlife funding, defund reorganization

As the Senate begins its process of drafting its Fiscal Year 2020 spending bills, the House is moving forward with its slate of appropriations bills and several are ready for...

May 30, 2019

TWS Northeast Section’s Jacqueline Frair recognized

Jacqueline Frair, the president-elect for the Northeast Section of The Wildlife Society and an associate professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, was recently named the college’s...

May 29, 2019

Lake Tahoe water quality up from historic low

Attendees at this year’s American Fisheries Society and The Wildlife Society Joint Conference in Reno, Nevada will have a clearer Lake Tahoe to enjoy. Scientists at the University of California,...

May 29, 2019

Wild Cam: Tracking the rewilding of a Malawi park

Wildlife managers with the U.S. Forest Service are partnering with international colleagues in Malawi to track the revitalization of wildlife decimated by poaching. But a nongovernmental organization based in South...

May 29, 2019

Bill introduced to establish a system of wildlife corridors

The Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act of 2019 (S. 1499/H.R. 2795) was introduced last week in both the House and Senate, which would establish a national system of wildlife corridors to...

May 29, 2019

‘It’s more than just about a bird’

As TWS member Mack Frantz studied songbirds in northern West Virginia, he and his colleagues found that natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale formation was reducing the Louisiana waterthrush’s...