Month: November 2019

Students from The Wildlife Society’s University of North Dakota Student Chapter helped hunters deposit deer head samples to be tested for chronic wasting disease in Grand Forks when the state’s...

Most wildlife and fisheries biologists working in California will encounter the California Environmental Quality Act at some point in their careers — either through assisting with the preparation of a...

Melting sea ice may be to blame for the spread of a wildlife virus from one side to the Arctic to the other. The issue emerged in 2004 when Pacific...

The Wildlife Society’s sections, chapters and working groups hold meetings and workshops throughout the year. The following meeting is currently scheduled in December: December 12-14: California North Coast Chapter of...

Wildlife managers and academic researchers are facing a growing disconnect that threatens to undermine their ultimate goals of conservation. Jerod Merkle saw a disconnect between wildlife managers and academic researchers...

A wolf biologists tracked for the past year wandering throughout Wyoming seems to have crossed an open hunting zone to a new home in Colorado. About a year ago, the...

North American birds face high levels of anthropogenic noise pollution, especially when they breed in human modified habitats. Most research on noise pollution’s impact on birds in the past focused...

It took a bulldozer for wildlife technicians to return a massive manatee back to the water after it became stranded in the mud while trying to cross between two waterbodies...

A new deadly contagious frog virus made up of genes from Asia and America has the ability to rapidly wipe out whole amphibian populations. This ranavirus strain could already be...

A deadly snake fungal disease has officially spread into California — the farthest west of any detection yet, according to a recent bulletin from the state Department of Fish and...