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The U.S. National Park Service turns 100 today, a momentous landmark for the agency entrusted with America’s most treasured landscapes. Congress established the Service in 1916 to oversee national parks...

John Craighead, a member of The Wildlife Society since 1951, celebrated his 100th birthday on Aug. 14. Craighead, who was born in Washington D.C., moved to out west with his...

Wildlife conservationists and renewable energy proponents may share large-scale environmental goals, but they are butting heads over the fate of the California desert, The Washington Post reports. In collaboration with...

In an effort to monitor grizzly bear populations in national parks, researchers placed remote cameras throughout the Rocky Mountains. In a recent study published in Biological Conservation, TWS member Robin...

Despite drier weather and generally poorer habitat conditions this spring compared to last, overall duck numbers remained steady and well above the long-term average. According to the U.S. Fish and...

Federal judges found that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to properly consider ways to minimize detrimental effects of a wind energy project on federally endangered Indiana bats (Myotis...

After the King Fire torched nearly 100,000 acres of the Eldorado National Forest in 2014, California spotted owls (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) abandoned the charred remains of their homes, Capital Public...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has produced a technical guidance document regarding the impacts that man-made ocean noise has on marine mammals. The document, first drafted two months ago...

Over the last decade, scientists have noticed that gulls on Protection Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, a channel to the Pacific Ocean between Canada and the U.S.,...

Canada has added the collared pika (Ochotona collaris) as a species of special concern under the Species at Risk Act. The collared pika, a small mammal related to the rabbit,...