Month: July 2020

When Ray Alisauskas first started researching Arctic waterfowl in 1983, their numbers were on a steady upswing. When he joined Canadian Wildlife Service in 1989, snow geese and Ross’s geese...

A fragmented landscape places obstacles in the path of swift fox expansion in Montana. Once much more common in the state’s grasslands, the foxes have declined over the last century....

Don’t miss The Wildlife Society’s 2020 Annual Conference: A Five-Day Virtual Conference Experience from September 28 to October 2! All TWS members can register now for just $100 — a savings of $200 off the...

The Bureau of Land Management will allow increased oil and gas drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The BLM released a final Environmental Impact Statement for the reserve...

Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, a primary focus of TWS’ policy efforts, was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives last week. “House passage of the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act is...

Territorial animals may be buffering themselves against disease transmission through behavior similar to social distancing in humans. While illness may still spread between individual animals through scent cues or other...

Warblers can develop different song dialects in different forests, but after wildfires, those dialects can converge in an unusual chorus as different populations come together. That’s the finding of Brett...

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland fisheries has changed its name to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. Officials say the new name is meant to better encompass all...

Back to Position Statements page Regulated2 trapping can be an effective and ecologically sound practice of selectively taking furbearers1. Regulated trapping in North America is consistent with internationally accepted principles...

Ten longtime TWS members have been named TWS Fellows for 2020. The TWS Fellows Award is given out each year to individuals who have “distinguished themselves through exceptional service” to...