Month: May 2019

Below is a summary of recent Student Chapter activities within the North Central Section of The Wildlife Society, which was included in the Section’s Spring 2019 newsletter. The newsletter includes updates from...

Could whistles deter bats from hitting wind turbines? Could loudspeakers keep eagles away? Those were two of the techniques proposed at the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America...

The House Natural Resources committee is considering an act that would prohibit grizzly bear hunting or other take of grizzlies in the contiguous United States where they aren’t already listed...

Emily Thomas, a past president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of The Wildlife Society, was recently recognized with the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from the Pennsylvania State University Forest Resources Alumni...

Since California outlawed predator hunting contests in 2018, other states have followed suit. Vermont ended coyote (Canis latrans) hunting contests last year. New Mexico ended them last month. Arizona may...

To judge by the annual surveys, black brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) are on the upswing. After years of decline, aerial counts along their migration routes — between Mexico’s Baja Peninsula...

Below is a summary of recent Student Chapter activities within the North Central Section of The Wildlife Society, which was included in the Section’s Spring 2019 newsletter. The newsletter provides updates from...

At a Marine Corps base in the Mojave Desert, biologists were finding that as ravens (Corvus corax) were increasing, endangered Mojave desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) were declining. Historically, ravens had...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recognized “the loss, degradation and fragmentation of migratory bird habitat” as potentially the largest single threat to migratory birds. Human activity contributes to...

The Antarctic Peninsula can be a brutal place, but penguins and seals have created biodiversity hotspots, researchers found, thanks to their nitrogen-rich scat. Biologists found ammonia from their feces is...