Month: May 2022

May 11, 2022

TWS reflects on racial insensitivity at recent conference

The Director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife made racially insensitive remarks at last month’s Colorado Parks and Wildlife Partners in the Outdoors Conference that resulted in a CPW employee feeling...

May 11, 2022

Sage grouse struggle as BLM and states search for answers

This article originally appeared on E&E News Greenwire. The imperiled greater sage grouse, an iconic Western bird that federal and state regulators have been trying to protect for decades, may...

May 10, 2022

TWS2021: AI image recognition could be the future of wildlife management

Image recognition technology could help with wildlife management, but the products still need some fine tuning. “We saw lots of possible implications if this technology would work,” said TWS member...

May 10, 2022

House committee examines Interior FY 2023 budget

When the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies convened on April 18 to discuss the Interior’s proposed fiscal year 2023 budget, legislators questioned Interior Secretary Deb...

May 10, 2022

Ocelots take to new wildlife crossings

Fewer than 50 ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) are known to exist in the wild in the United States, all of them in Texas. But 40% of ocelots die as a result...

May 9, 2022

Deadly parasite has increased in monarchs

A parasite that kills monarch butterflies is increasing in prevalence, possibly contributing to population declines. Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, or O.E. for short, gets into the gut of monarch (Danaus plexippus) caterpillars....

May 9, 2022

Native species can tolerate invaders in the lowland floodplains

Invasive bullfrogs and sunfish in the southwestern Washington floodplains don’t seem to be a detriment to native amphibians and fish in the area. That’s surprising, researchers say, since that isn’t...

May 9, 2022

Facemasks present concern for sea turtles

One toll of the COVID-19 pandemic for wildlife is the spread of facemasks in natural areas. In a routine fecal analysis of a dead green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) found...

May 6, 2022

Watch: Florida trail cameras catch wildlife in action

Trail cameras can get glimpses of wildlife that humans rarely see. In North Florida, trail cameras captured amazing footage of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), Florida black bears (Ursus americanus floridanus),...

May 6, 2022

Interior distributes $56M in state wildlife grants

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded $56 million to states and territories through the State and Tribal Wildlife Grants Program for Fiscal Year 2022 to help conserve imperiled species...