Category: Around the Web

Humans may not be the only culprits in climate change. The New York Times reports that as the arctic warms, beavers (Castor canadensis) are expanding their range north. The dams...

On Dec. 7, Congress voted to avert a partial government shutdown, as funding from a previous Continuing Resolution was due to expire on Dec. 8. The new continuing resolution extends...

A snake hunter outdid his own record for the largest Burmese python (Python bivittatus) captured in a South Florida district hunt last weekend. Jason Leon shot a 17-foot, 132-pound female...

The governments of Canada and British Columbia have developed a Draft Conservation Agreement for the Conservation of the Southern Mountain Caribou. The Southern Mountain Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), an ecotype...

On Nov. 21 the U.S. Forest Service published a notice soliciting comments on its plan to revisit and possibly amend land management plans in regards to the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus...

Appearing in Utah on Monday, President Donald Trump shrank the size of two of the state’s national monuments by about 2 million acres. Trump decreased Bears Ears National Monument by...

TWS member Tiffany Grade’s Journal of Wildlife Management study on lead tackle and loon deaths in has been featured in the Washington Post. A biologist with the Loon Preservation Committee,...

If you needed another reason to come to The Wildlife Society’s 2018 Annual Conference in Cleveland, Ohio in October, just open up National Geographic Traveler. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports...

November is Manatee Awareness Month, and researchers in the Chesapeake Bay have found themselves unusually aware of them. Earlier this month, they were shocked when they spotted a 7-foot manatee...

On Nov. 8 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it would increase hunting activities at nine national wildlife refuges and open up one refuge to sport fishing. Some...