Month: November 2020

With the appearance of Asian giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia) in the Pacific Northwest, Washington state has focused on attaching tiny trackers to hornets in an effort to track them to...

This article originally appeared in the Wyoming Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Fall 2020 newsletter. Through strange times, the University of Wyoming’s Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society has not...

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS), through partnership with The Wildlife Society, is offering research assistantships for Native American undergraduate or graduate students as part of the Native American Research Assistantship...

Join the San Francisco Bay Chapter of The Wildlife Society on Nov. 9 and 16 in its first virtual workshop — Environmental Career Development. This career development workshop is applicable to anyone...

The world needs to change its strategy for stopping biodiversity loss, a group of scientists from around the world writes in a recent paper published in Science. The 40 scientists...

When it comes to surviving in the wild, sleeping undisturbed is a major challenge. But ongoing research explores some of the diverse strategies that mammals have adapted to keep themselves...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has removed gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the contiguous United States from the Endangered Species Act. First listed under the ESA in the 1970’s,...

Massive wildfires burning across Colorado have closed off large swaths of public lands, prompting the state to refund more than 2,800 hunting licenses this year. The closures include all of...

Back when much of what’s now the U.S. Southwest still belonged to Mexico, elk used to roam widely across the region. Researchers are now looking at old diaries, books and...

Ironclad diabolical beetles have a puzzling ability to withstand the pressure of being run over by a car without getting squished. According to new research, the beetles (Phloeodes diabolicus) use...