Month: October 2021

The White House nominated Martha Williams for director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week. Since January 2020, Williams has been serving as the principal deputy director for...

The all-new Wildlife Innovation Center at this year’s TWS Annual Conference promises to be an exciting new program track for attendees. Among the featured topics are drones, chemical immobilization and...

A New York town is wrestling with how to handle a growing problem with beavers, whose dams are impeding the town’s drinking water. About 20 miles up the Hudson River...

The California tiger salamanders of Sonoma County continue to decline despite well-intentioned efforts to preserve areas for the amphibians. The distinct population segment of California tiger salamanders is unlikely to...

If college students were in charge of conservation policy, they’d be open to a wide range of options, from federal dollars coming from natural resource extraction to state sources, like...

Mountain lions live closer to developed areas in Los Angeles than researchers previously thought. Los Angeles, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the country, is home to about 18...

Nicola Koper had been studying the impacts of human development and traffic on wildlife for decades, often creating manipulative experiments to test how noise affects different species. When COVID-19 lockdowns...

Monarch butterflies are planning to spend their winters on the coast of California in greater numbers this year, according to surveys. More than 1,300 monarchs (Danaus plexippus) were reported at...

There’s a good reason to get your ducks in a row. It all comes down to physics. In a study in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, researchers looked at the...

The Wildlife Society has selected Kelly O’Connor to serve in the new position of Conservation Affairs Network fellow. O’Connor will head the Conservation Affairs Network, which connects TWS unit leaders...