Category: Around the Web

An amendment that would prevent the greater sage-grouse from being considered for federal listing under the Endangered Species Act until 2026 is on its way to the floor of the...

States will receive $95 million in fiscal year 2016 from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), a federal program which supports land acquisition by local communities, states and federal...

The Washington Post featured long-time TWS member and squirrel expert John Koprowski in an article to help kick off their sixth annual Squirrel Week on April 9. Koprowski, a professor...

Parks Canada is building a single action plan to address seven resident species listed under the Species at Risk Act – including the woodland caribou – in Jasper National Park....

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released the final framework for the 2016-2017 migratory bird hunting seasons. The Service institutes the migratory bird hunting regulations annually in order to enable...

A little brown bat in North Bend, Washington, has been confirmed to have white-nose syndrome (WNS), making it the farthest western case of the deadly bat disease that’s killed more...

An eagle family has become Washington D.C.’s favorite new reality TV stars thanks to a live webcam feed. Watch as a pair of adult bald eagles watches over two recent...

Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed into law legislation to allow captive cervid hunting – following a decade-long debate. The practice of hunting cervids within high-fenced enclosures, also known as “canned...

USFWS proposed an update to its decades-old mitigation policy that would provide a “streamlined approach” to lessening the impacts of development on fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats. The proposed...

Yellowstone National Park began a bison cull at Stephens Creek Capture Facility on Feb. 15, according to the National Parks Service. The park plans to remove a total of 600 to 900...